Pennsylvania is among the key states where officials are not permitted to begin counting mail votes until Election Day. Talks between the state's Democrats and Republicans to allow more time to handle the sharp increase in mail-in balloting this year were unsuccessful. Trump...
A 2019 state law greatly expanded access to mail-in balloting in Pennsylvania and, fueled by concerns over the pandemic, more than 3 million voters are expected to cast ballots by mail in the Nov. 3 election. That’s more than 10 times the number who voted by mail in Pennsylvania in 201...
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 ...
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...