Time is running out for Pennsylvanians to request a mail ballot. The deadline to request a ballot is 5 p.m. on Tuesday, so elections officials recommend acting as soon as possible.
Time is running out forPennsylvanians to request a mail ballot and submit it to vote in the Nov. 5 general election. With the deadline to request a ballot 5 p.m. on Tuesday, elections officials recommend acting as soon as possible. Voters can request a ballot at the...
Washington —The Republican National Committee asked theSupreme Courton Monday to put on hold a Pennsylvania high court decision that said election officials must count provisional ballots cast by a voter whose mail ballot was rejected because it was returned without a secrecy envelop...
A legislative deal that year put an end to straight-ticket voting, a priority of Republicans, in exchange for allowing anyone to request a ballot in the mail, a change sought by Democrats. The mailed ballot expansion left in place the longstanding procedures for absentee ballots. Butthe pandemi...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's counties pressed lawmakers and Gov. Tom Wolf to allow them to process mail-in ballots before Election Day in the battleground state as they consider the prospect of waiting until polls open to dig into what could be
What got the deal done was a trade. Wolf, a Democrat, agreed to sign a bill that would remove the option of straight-ticket voting from Pennsylvania ballots — a GOP priority — as well as let any voter apply for a mail-in ballot without an excuse up to 50 days before an election....
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans wasted no time in appealing a Pennsylvania court decision that would relax the rules for mail ballots, asking the state Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a lower-court opinion issued one day earlier.
When Pennsylvania voters return a mail ballot, they’re required by state law to sign their ballots and write the date. Some voters neglect to date their ballot at all, while others will put an incorrect date, like their birthday. Election officials do not actually u...
Absentee or mail-in ballots or envelopes.The option of voting by mail without claiming absence debuted in 2020 in Pennsylvania, and several RTKL appeals dealt with requestors’ desire to access those ballots and envelopes. The name envelopes, which include a voter’s signature, and the ballots,...
Pennsylvania counties, which typically send out mail-in ballots weeks before the election to voters who request them, have been waiting for the state Supreme Court to rule in multiple cases concerning whether third-party candidates could be listed on the ballot. The last ruling came Monday, and...