Nearly 75% of 1.1 million mail-in ballots have been returned in election for judges, local officials.
Pennsylvania voters will decide whether to keep a Democratic majority on the state’s highest court — the center of pivotal fights over voting rights, redistricting and elections — or potentially plunge the court into a partisan deadlock in a premier presidential battleground.
In Pennsylvania, state Supreme Court justices are up for retention vote every 10 years after they are first elected. Instead of pitting candidates against the judges, these retention elections provide a depoliticized way for voters to choose yes or no on whether they want judges to continue serving on the bench for another decade.
The allegations of fraud appeared to be motivated by the defendants' desire to make money and keep their jobs and was not an effort to influence the election results, said Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday, a Republican.
The more than eight million registered voters in Pennsylvania have only a few days left to request a mail-in ballot in time for November's elections.
Voting-age residents in Pennsylvania have only a few days left to register to vote in the state's municipal elections.
Pennsylvania voters will cast ballots in the upcoming municipal election for local and countywide political posts. They'll also vote on whether to retain three state Supreme Court justices.
County election officials are required to accurately report when voters’ mail-in ballots have been set aside because of disqualifying errors and allow their votes to be counted on provisional ballots, Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled.
This year on Nov. 4, Pennsylvania voters will head to the polls to decide the future of the state’s Supreme Court.
While 2025 is an off-year election, with no major federal races save but a few special elections across the country to fill seats in the US House of Representatives, that doesn’t mean there aren’t important state races on the ballot here in Pennsylvania.
