By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pennsylvania officials on Thursday urged local election offices to begin counting mail-in ballots on Election Day, after several Republican-led counties in the battleground state said they would not start tabulating the votes until a day l...
The Supreme Court is allowing North Carolina and Pennsylvania to count absentee ballots for several days after Election Day. CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang joined CBSN to explain the potential impact on state Republicans and the Trump campaign....
In Pennsylvania, 1.5 million voters cast ballots by mail in the June 2 primary, up from 84,000 in the 2016 primary, and marked the first time that more people voted by mail than in person. The surge in mail in ballots took several days to tabulate results. "Voters should be prepared w...
Pennsylvania is the first and only state that will disqualify ballots received without a required secrecy envelope while giving voters no recourse to fix the mistake.
November election,” McKenzie said. “It's all but guaranteed in this [case] that no matter which way they rule at the appellate court, the case will be appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Obviously it's really important to have this issue resolved prior to the November election....
FILE - Election workers recount ballots from the recent Pennsylvania Senate race at the Allegheny County Election Division warehouse on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) The U.S. Postal Service said Monday...
There are also some more esoteric reasons why mail ballots get rejected. For example, in Pennsylvania, “naked ballots” — those not enclosed in the required secrecy envelope — are automatically tossed. Or “a couple might put the wrong person’s ballot in the wrong envelope,” said Herron...
In Pennsylvania’s June 2 primary election alone, when 1.5 million voted by mail, more than 26,000 ballots were rejected, including for “signature-related errors or matters of penmanship,” the lawsuit had said. One county election director, L. Edward Allison Jr. of Lawrence County, said th...
Four years ago, President Joe Biden beat former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes. Polls indicate that, this year, Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are in a dead heat. The suit was filed by two voters in Butler County who submitted mail-in ballots but...
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania.