Two incumbent Republicans were reelected to the other row offices, Treasurer Stacy Garrity of Athens in rural Bradford County and Auditor General Tim DeFoor of Harrisburg.
Congressional seats are still hanging in the balance.
At least 33 county officials throughout the commonwealth have made public statements in person or on social media supporting Trump’s endless election lies or policies rooted in election denialism.
Keep checking back for updates throughout the day.
It would take congressional majorities and most swing-state legislatures to upend the election.
Senator Casey was joined by Ashley Ehasz, Senator Cory Booker, and County Commissioner Bob Harvie on the eve of election day.
Experts fear the recent confusion demonstrates the new speed of misinformation networks.
Witold Walczak, Legal Director for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, says they are ready to defend the election process.
The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“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.
