Five counties launched inquiries before the election. Lancaster County found hundreds of forms with indicators of fraud.
Republican Dave McCormick led incumbent Bob Casey by 29,000 votes as of Wednesday, a gap of just 0.43%.
The challenges reportedly target mostly Democrats in several southeastern counties, including Bucks County.
Votebeat’s map shows how widely ‘notice and cure’ policies vary across the state, and what happens if your ballot is flagged for possible rejection.
The stakes of an accurate yet swift ballot count couldn’t be higher because each day that unofficial election results are delayed could breed conspiracy theories about the outcome.
Policies on date requirement and ‘notice and cure’ policies stay unchanged after voting rights groups and Republicans lose their bid for emergency intervention.
Does the date requirement violate the state constitution? The ACLU and the Public Interest Law Center want a definitive ruling before the November election.
The decision, focusing on the court’s jurisdiction rather than the case’s merits, could cause thousands of mail ballots to be rejected in November’s election.
The errors — which users encounter when they search for their municipality and street name — affect as many as 85,000 of the state’s 8.9 million voters, a Votebeat and Spotlight PA analysis found.
Reason and common sense are guiding decisions again as the school board turns to teachers and administrators – not right-wing Christian groups or Moms for Liberty – to regulate classrooms and school policy.
Patel has vowed to sever the FBI’s intelligence-gathering activities from the rest of its mission and said he would “shut down” the bureau’s headquarters building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., and “reopen it the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state.’”
Editor Cyril Mychalejko speaks with Noll, co-author with Jon Michaels of the new book “VIGILANTE NATION: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy.”
It’s not because physically providing adequate housing is all that tough, but because dedicating the resources necessary to care for our neighbors has proven damned near impossible, writes Pat LaMarche.
