It was approved in a deal between the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Tom Wolf, in which lawmakers voted for no-excuse mail-in balloting and Wolf agreed to end straight-ticket voting, in which voters can vote for all of the candidates of a party together. The Commonwealth Court, ...
December 7, 2020 –PA Senate Republicans refuse to defend Act 77 and its mail-in balloting provisions in acasebefore the U.S. Supreme Court because Secretary Boockvar used the PASC to legislate, rewrite, and manipulate the law to gain political advantage. Blatantly partisan actions undermined th...
I’ve argued for a while now that 2020 was an anomaly because of the weird way we conducted the election in the midst of a pandemic—compounded by Trump’s self-sabotage in telling people not to trust mail-in balloting. While likely not decisive overall, it almost certainly gave Biden to...
Putin’s congratulations were the Russian leader’s first public comment on the outcome of the U.S. balloting and came after a speech during an international forum conference in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. ″I would like to take this opportunity to congratula...
Because elections are administered at the county level, and because of the ever-changing legal landscape, it’s hard to gauge the impact of any single ruling involving mail balloting policies in the state. Many Pennsylvania counties – including some of its largest counties – offer mail voters ...
It has long been known that Biden would benefit from a late surge of mail-in balloting that was preferred by Democrats amid the pandemic. The President spent months on the campaign trail, falsely blasting mail-in ballots as prone to fraud – one reason why GOP voters have proven far less ...