Talks on critical election legislation in Pennsylvania stall
In a statement to The Associated Press, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office said an offer extended in recent days to House Republican leaders has been effectively rejected, now less than three weeks before Election Day.
Pennsylvania high court to settle voter signatures fight
The fight over signatures is one of many partisan battles being fought in the state Legislature and the courts over mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, amid warnings that a presidential election result will hang in limbo for days on a drawn-out vote count in Pennsylvania.
PA high court to settle voter signatures fight
Pennsylvania’s highest court granted a request Wednesday from the state’s top elections official to take up the question of whether counties should count mail-in ballots when a voter’s signature doesn’t necessarily match the one on their registration.
Pennsylvania county says 29K wrong ballots were mailed out
Allegheny County officials blamed the contractor hired to handle the printing, collating and mailing of ballots, calling it a “ballot image mapping error.” They were alerted to the mistake on Friday, when voters started contacting them to complain that their ballot showed contests for other districts, they said.
Pennsylvania becomes a battleground over election security
Election officials in Philadelphia have been sued by President Donald Trump’s campaign, blasted by the president as overseeing a place “where bad things happen” and forced to explain security measures after a theft from a warehouse full of election equipment.
Mail-in ballot requests pass 2.6M in Pennsylvania
Of the applicants, more than 1.7 million are registered Democrats and about 641,000 are registered Republicans, according to state data.
Wife of Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor targeted by racial slur at store
Gisele Fetterman, whose husband is Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, said the woman appeared to recognize her and began harassing her.
Judges rejects Trump campaign suit over Philadelphia voter offices
Judge Gary Glazer wrote in his 14-page opinion that Pennsylvania law does not allow such representatives to observe in election offices, a stance held by election lawyers, city officials and the state’s top elections official.
Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf aims to pressure Sen. Toomey into voting against Barrett confirmation
The comments by Wolf, a Democrat, are yet another sign of how seriously both sides are taking the battle over the Supreme Court seat of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Pennsylvania House leaders call for lawmaker to resign over videos of son, 5, drawing from cigar
The Beaver County Times disclosed the existence of videos in which Rep. Aaron Bernstine encourages his 5-year-old son to draw from a cigar and use profane language.
Talks to update Pennsylvania's mail-in voting law show life
House Republicans held an internal conference call Wednesday to discuss the idea of giving counties four or five days to process mail-in ballots before Election Day.
Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey won't run for re-election, or governor
Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania will not seek re-election in 2022.
Audit faults Gov. Wolf's business shutdown waiver program
Pennsylvania's chief fiscal watchdog on Tuesday criticized a state program under which businesses could seek permission to operate during Gov. Tom Wolf's pandemic shutdown, saying waivers were granted inconsistently and with little transparency and comparing the process to a "Keystone Kops routine."
Pa. court battle erupts over voters' signatures on mail ballots
Pennsylvania's top election official is asking the state's highest court to back her up in a new legal dispute with President Donald Trump's campaign over counting mail-in ballots when a voter's signature doesn't necessarily match the one on their registration.
Gov. Wolf requests major disaster declaration for damages from Tropical Storm Isaias
The storm left thousands without power and caused significant flooding throughout the area. The National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes in Bucks and Montgomery counties.
Pennsylvania online voter registration services restored after outage
The Wolf administration said an equipment failure at a data center caused online outages for the Department of State, the state liquor board and other state government entities.
Trump shifts focus to Pennsylvania to shore up reelection effort
The president will travel to the state for the second time in a week on Saturday, hoping to attract the same rural and white working-class voters who delivered him a narrow victory here in 2016.
Secrecy envelopes will cause electoral chaos, Philadelphia official warns
Philadelphia’s top elections official is warning of electoral chaos in the state lawmakers do not remove a provision that, under a days-old court decision, requires counties to throw out mail-in ballots returned without secrecy envelopes.
Trump campaign's election lawsuit in Pennsylvania halted by federal judge
A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Sunday put a high-profile election case on hold, telling President Donald Trump's campaign that its claims must wait, at least until October.