Elections
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Judge rules that Pennsylvania counties can’t reject undated and wrongly dated mail ballots
Monday’s decision is the latest in a long-running legal dispute over what is a small percentage of votes cast in the state.
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Federal cuts to CISA programs make elections less secure, Pennsylvania’s Al Schmidt warns
In a letter to the homeland security secretary, Pennsylvania’s top election official cited the critical help local election officials have gotten from the cybersecurity agency. This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Pennsylvania’s top election official is warning the federal government that its decision to end a…
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Pennsylvania elections chief touts progress in reducing mail ballot rejection rate
County elections officials in Pennsylvania rejected more than 11,000 mail-in ballots for technical reasons in the November election, including thousands that were determined to violate the much litigated requirement that voters provide accurate, handwritten dates on the return envelopes.
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Suit claims Hazleton’s election system is biased against Hispanic voters
A complaint filed Tuesday in Scranton federal court claims the “at-large” system “results in Hispanic citizens not having an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and to elect candidates of their choice.”
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Court sides with state over Fulton County’s handling of voting machines after 2020 election
The Commonwealth Court said the Department of State does not have to reimburse counties when they decertify machines, a defeat for Fulton County in a dispute that arose after two Republican county commissioners permitted Wake Technology Services Inc. to examine and obtain data from Dominion voting machines in 2021.
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Democrat Bob Casey concedes to Republican David McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate contest
Casey’s concession comes more than two weeks after Election Day, as a grindingly slow ballot-counting process became a spectacle of hours-long election board meetings, social media outrage, lawsuits and accusations that some county officials were openly flouting the law.
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Pennsylvania’s high court orders counties not to count disputed ballots in US Senate race
Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court on Monday weighed in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick, ordering counties not to count mail-in ballots that lack a correct handwritten date on the return envelope.
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Casey, McCormick race triggers automatic recount as margins tighten
The race for US Senate remains undecided as it heads to an automatic recount. US Sen. Bob Casey trails McCormick by less than 0.5% and continues to cut into McCormick’s lead.
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Did your absentee ballot count? Today the last day to fix it as Senate race remains tight
Democrats are pushing those who live in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties and voted by mail to check the status of their mail-in ballots and fix any potential issues by Tuesday with the US Senate race being too close to call.
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PA Democrats hold onto the PA House after Frank Burns wins reelection in deep-red district
Pennsylvania House Democrats were able to pull off the unthinkable and hold onto the PA House by a 102-101 majority following Tuesday’s election results.
