No, you can’t ‘change your vote’ after submitting your ballot, local officials say

ALLEGHENY CO., Pa. — The phrase “change my vote” started trending on Google after President Donald Trump tweeted, urging people to change their vote by actually recalling their ballots and voting for him instead.

The president claimed voters can do this “in most states," but local officials said that is not the case at all.

Allegheny County election officials told Channel 11 there is no way to change your vote if you have already submitted it. If you voted by mail already and show up to a polling place on Election Day and request a provisional ballot to change who you voted for, you can cast it.

However, when those provisional ballots are counted in the coming hours and days, they will see you already voted and will only count the initial mail-in vote.

“If your vote has already been submitted, then that is the vote that will be counted,” said Bethany Hallam, with the Allegheny County elections division. “If you go in on your polling place on Election Day, they’re going to say, ‘sorry, you already voted by mail.’ And when you say, ‘I want to change my vote,’ they’re going to say, ‘you can’t do that.’”

Voters who were lined up downtown said the misinformation is disconcerting, causing the possibility for confusion for Pennsylvania voters.

Tuesday was the last day to apply for a mail-in ballot, and if the elections office doesn’t receive the application by 5 p.m., you will have to vote another way on Election Day.

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