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.
Mail voting had been the source of near constant attack and litigation since 2020.
It started well before the pandemic and continues today. A key reason is experiences of racism within the larger school district that affect Black teachers across the system, but manifest differently depending on their schools’ locations.
The U.S. Department of Energy is dangling $750 million for the buildout of a hydrogen hub around Philadelphia. But the looming Trump presidency and strong economic headwinds endanger its prospects.
Lake Angela was moved by her own experiences with schizophrenia and the stories of the treatment patients in her dance therapy groups faced at the psychiatric institution.
The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.
The Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless provides the county’s unhoused individuals with more than 1,000 bed nights each year.