Pennsylvania Just Broke Its Voter Registration Record
More than 9 million Pennsylvanians have registered to vote, and nearly half of them are Democrats.
More than 9 million Pennsylvanians have registered to vote, and nearly half of them are Democrats.
“We are members of these unions, and they don’t take into consideration our feelings about Donald J. Trump, then they don’t care about us and ... they don’t care about our dues,” one former union leader said.
“This bill represents another meaningless attempt to change a necessary tool for fighting the pandemic,” Gov. Tom Wolf wrote in his veto message.
Republican legislators have not responded to Wolf's efforts to amend election-related legislation, risking a dragged-out vote count on Election Day.
PA Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar says counties should not reject mail-in ballots if the signatures on them do not appear to match the signatures in county records, but Republicans are fighting that guidance.
Officials said voters will receive corrected ballots next week, and they are working to identify any incorrect ballots that might have been mailed in already.
State officials have no plans to impose another statewide stay-at-home order or business shutdown "at this time," the state Secretary of Health said.
More than 1.7 million of the applicants are registered Democrats, about 641,000 are registered Republicans, and 284,000 are independent or third party voters.
Melissa Szymanski spent five hours in a Hartford, Connecticut, emergency room in late March and wound up with bills totaling about $3,200.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said recovery from the coronavirus pandemic has been "the most unequal recovery in American history." Workers in high-wage jobs are doing fine, he said, “but what did the bottom half get?”