Voting Info
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Republicans have launched an audit of Pennsylvania’s automatic voter registration process
The audit comes one year after Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration followed two dozen other states in offering automatic voter registration at driver’s licensing centers.
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Mail-in ballots are now available to voters in Montgomery and Wyoming counties
Voters elsewhere in the state who have already registered to vote by mail in the November election should begin receiving their mail ballots early in October.
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Court takes on another case over Pennsylvania mail-in voting
The state Supreme Court took up the appeal from a Commonwealth Court decision that said Butler County had to count provisional ballots from two voters who had received automatic emails before the April primary telling them their mail-in votes had been rejected because they were so-called “naked ballots” that weren’t enclosed in the provided secrecy…
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Pennsylvania mail ballots may not start going out in some counties until early October
Following some confusion over a state law requiring counties to begin processing voters’ applications for mail ballots 50 days before an election, state officials announced Wednesday that counties are still in the process of preparing mail ballots for voters.
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Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with flawed dates on envelopes can be thrown out, court rules
Commonwealth Court two weeks ago had halted enforcement of the handwritten dates on exterior envelopes. The Supreme Court’s reversal of that decision raises the prospect that thousands of ballots that arrive in time might get thrown out in a key swing state in what is expected to be a close presidential contest.
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Pennsylvania voters can cast a provisional ballot if their mail ballot is rejected, court says
A state court decided Thursday that voters in Pennsylvania can cast provisional ballots in place of mail-in ballots that are rejected for a garden-variety mistake they made when they returned it.
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Caring beyond health: Pennsylvania hospital ensures patients can vote
Patients who happen to find themselves in Lankenau Medical Center just outside Philadelphia on Election Day can still cast their vote.
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Court rules that Pa. counties must count undated and incorrectly dated mail-in ballots
A state court Friday halted enforcement of a requirement that voters include accurate, handwritten dates on envelopes used to submit mail-in ballots, a ruling likely to keep several thousand Pennsylvania votes from being thrown out in the November election.
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Appeals to 2024 election cases in Pennsylvania will be expedited
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued the temporary order, which shortens the appeals window for 2024 election cases from ten days to three.
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Washington County broke law by refusing to tell voters if it rejected their ballot, judge says
The NAACP sued the Western Pa. county earlier this summer as did seven voters whose ballots had been rejected in the April 23 primary, accusing Washington County of violating the constitutional due process rights of voters by deliberately concealing whether their ballot had been counted.
