The state’s top election official calls on the Legislature to update rules, and to give local administrators a voice.
Election officials have long complained about the interface. They’ll have to wait a couple more years for a change.
Lawmakers signal some room for agreement on expanded voter ID rules and revised mail ballot procedures.
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.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
“We’re running for school board to solve problems that affect students and families every day.”
Experts say the Trump administration’s “hostile” approach could plummet foreign enrollment.
