Elections
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What to expect in Pennsylvania’s state primaries
The election is a prelude to November, when voters could scramble partisan control of the state Supreme Court. The primaries in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will have added significance because the eventual Democratic nominees will be heavily favored in the general election.
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Democrats endorse set of changes to Pennsylvania election rules, sending bill to state Senate
The wide-ranging bill, which faces long odds in the Republican-majority Senate, addresses an array of election-related matters, including rules for ballot drop boxes, electronic lists of registered voters for election workers to consult, in-person early voting and voter registration.
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In Pittsburgh, candidates face their future voters, part of a national effort to engage the young
The forum, coordinated by the Allegheny Youth Vote Coalition working with Pittsburgh Public Schools, was the eighth held at a public high school in the city, all designed to get the youngest and future voters involved in elections.
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Trump’s Justice Department drops lawsuit accusing Hazleton of diluting power of Hispanic voters
The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn its lawsuit that accused a heavily Hispanic city in Pennsylvania of illegally diluting the political power of its growing Hispanic population.
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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.
