Missing and Irreconcilable “Yellow Books” – 244 of 428 Precincts Without Required Voter Lists at Certification (PA)

Delaware County, Pennsylvania certified the November 3, 2020 election on or about November 24, 2020. At the time of certification, Delaware County’s own records – produced in response to a May 21, 2021 Right to Know Law request – revealed that 15 precincts had no Return Sheets at all, 16 precincts had blank Return Sheets, and 213 precincts were missing required information. In total, 244 of 428 precincts – more than half – were missing data legally required to certify. Poll worker coordinators formally admitted to missing “yellow numbered list of voters” (the formal statutory term for the poll book voter list under 25 P.S. § 3154(b)), to incorrect numbers in the yellow books that did not match scanner tabulations, and to precincts where Judges of Election outright refused to fill out the poll books at all. Certification occurred despite these documented deficiencies.