Pennsylvanians Won Important Victories for Clean Energy and the Environment in 2024
December 23, 2024
But this momentum needs to power us into a 2025 that will likely be filled with many challenges.
Elections
The strategies range from outright reversals to “slow walking” the implementation of voter-approved ballot initiatives, such as lawmakers refusing to provide funding.
Five counties launched inquiries before the election. Lancaster County found hundreds of forms with indicators of fraud.
“As the first count of ballots is completed, Pennsylvanians can move forward with the knowledge that their voices were heard, whether their vote was the first to be counted or the last,” Casey said.
The legal challenges could lead to court decisions that dictate in future elections which ballots can and can't be tallied.
Democratic-majority election boards in Montgomery County, Philadelphia and Bucks County had voted to count the ballots that lacked a correct date.
Vote Mama PAC-endorsed candidates achieved a 71% win rate in the commonwealth.
Democrats cast more mail-in ballots than Republicans, and Democrats in the past have supported counting ballots that trip over what they view as meaningless clerical requirements in state law.
“Despite some efforts to undermine confidence, including unfounded claims of 'cheating' in Philadelphia, our election process proved strong, transparent, and efficient,” said Committee of Seventy CEO Lauren Cristella.
Republican Dave McCormick led incumbent Bob Casey by 29,000 votes as of Wednesday, a gap of just 0.43%.
Despite the lessons of history, a new round of doomsayers are ready to write the Democrats’ obituary in 2024.
Bucks County’s election board voted to count more than 400 mail-in ballots that lack a correct handwritten date on the outer envelope — something that Republicans are challenging and have opposed repeatedly in court.
“Here in Harrisburg, in the 'People’s House', we held onto the people’s majority, because we’ve been delivering for the work of the people,” said PA House Speaker Joanna McClinton.
Trump has railed against offshore wind turbines spoiling the view from a golf course he owns in Scotland.
Pennsylvania’s red shift in the 2024 election wasn’t isolated to the presidential race.
The AP says there are an estimated 109,000 ballots yet to be counted.
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