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.
The Commonwealth Court ruling says Butler County voters whose mail ballots were rejected were entitled to have their provisional ballots counted.
Raymond Chang, president of the Asian American Christian Collaborative, warned that a repeal of the Johnson Amendment could help tether some congregations to certain parties or candidates.
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates the West Chester-born civil rights activist, a mentor to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and key architect of the March on Washington.
The uncertainty around the Trump administration’s tariff strategy “is creating havoc” for Warminster-based Gamry Instruments.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
