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.
The Commonwealth Court ruling says Butler County voters whose mail ballots were rejected were entitled to have their provisional ballots counted.
“We want [all voters’] votes to count, we want their voices to be heard, and we don’t think that minor technical mistakes on mail-in ballot envelopes should prevent access to voting,” said Public Interest Law Center’s Mimi McKenzie.
The Republicans cast ballots and signed an ‘alternative’ certificate for Trump, as if he had won the popular vote. Would they do it again? Poprik told Votebeat she would.
The ACLU and Department of State argued in Commonwealth Court that election officials don’t use the handwritten dates on ballot envelopes for anything. GOP lawyers say it’s a tool against fraud.
The Justice Department has policies to prevent investigations from being politicized, especially during an election year. The inspector general’s report highlights how breaches of these policies can snowball into false and exaggerated claims of election fraud.
State House passes bipartisan legislation that would set stricter deadlines for post-election period.
State law requires recounts in tight races. Will that happen this year?
Since Pennsylvania introduced no-excuse mail voting in 2020, thousands of ballots have been rejected over missing dates, signatures, or other mistakes. A successful legal challenge could have a profound effect.
Immigrant Rights Action’s Heidi Roux believes younger Latino voters will be motivated by the topics of “immigration, economy, education and healthcare.”
Raging Chicken Media’s Kevin Mahoney and Editor Cyril Mychalejko launch the Bucks County Beacon’s new weekly hour-long live broadcast each Friday at noon.
Both Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, have deemed Trump a fundamental threat to American values and democracy.
This is part of the PA Family Institute’s larger goal of making Pennsylvania an explicitly Christian state.
The share of young women who hold liberal views on the environment, abortion, race relations and gun laws has also also jumped by double digits.
