Elections

A mere 25.8% of registered voters in the county voted yesterday.
To some extent, President Donald Trump looms over the races, as progressive incumbents — Philly DA Larry Krasner and Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey — have vowed to resist his conservative agenda.
Judicial candidates Linda Bobrin, Dawn DiDonato Burke, Amy Fitzpatrick, and Tiffany Thomas-Smith bring decades of combined experience across family law, land use, housing, public service, criminal prosecution, and courtroom advocacy.
The measure includes in-person early voting and procedural updates for mail ballots that election officials have wanted for years. However, the exclusion of voter ID requirement makes its prospects in the GOP-controlled state Senate at best uncertain.
Democrats in Harrisburg recently introduced a landmark voting rights bill, the Voting Rights Protection Act, which is designed to encourage public participation in our elections by reducing barriers that keep people from casting their ballots.
The topics covered at a recent candidate forum at Perry Traditional Academy included an array of issues important to the teens: policing, school funding and youth involvement in their administrations.
Gallego travels to Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District and will be joined by Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is running against Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, “to engage the constituents Fitzpatrick is ignoring as he backs his party’s reckless budget resolution.”
There’s new consensus on voter ID in Pennsylvania. That doesn’t mean an election deal is coming.
It is the latest example of the DOJ dropping or withdrawing from a voting rights case begun under former President Joe Biden.
This bill will disenfranchise millions of voters, especially rural voters, voters of color, and married women who have chosen to change their last names, as numerous nonpartisan organizations have pointed out. But for Fitzpatrick it just didn’t matter.
The first round of lawsuits all cite the plain text of Article 1, which gives the president no power to regulate elections.
“The reason I win tough races is simple – I listen to people and I fight for them,” Harvie said.
In her new role as a party leader, Jane Kleeb is organizing Democrats to go on the offensive.
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“I reached out to them and said we have to know how you did it,” Senator-elect James Malone’s campaign manager said.

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