By Jack Phillips A Butler County official who was a witness to the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania provided more details on Thursday about a local police officer’s actions that he believed stopped the would-be assassin. Edward Lenz, a commander with the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, said that his […]
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Pennsylvania County Must Update Voters on Mail-In Ballot Status
By Zachary Stieber A Pennsylvania county must inform voters if their mail-in ballots have been counted or rejected, a state appeals court ruled on Sept. 24. In a 2–1 ruling, Commonwealth Court judges said that a Washington County judge did not err when he decided in August that the county’s failure to notify voters that […]
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules to Disqualify Undated, Misdated Mail-In Ballots
By Tom Ozimek The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision on Sept. 13 that upholds a requirement in the key battleground state that voters must include accurate dates on the exterior envelopes of their mail-in ballots for the votes to be counted. The split 4–3 ruling vacates a previous Commonwealth Court decision that had halted […]
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After Injured Trump Arrived at Pennsylvania Hospital, ER Patients Prayed
By Beth Brelje With temperatures in the 90s, an ambulance was making round trips between the July 13 Pennsylvania Trump rally and the Butler Memorial Hospital. That is according to Karen Foerster, 53, who was among those overcome by the heat. She and her husband Rick Foerster, 56, attend most Trump rallies within a 100-mile […]
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ACLU Files Election Integrity Complaint Over Pennsylvania County’s Mail-in Voting Policy
By Beth Brelji A new legal case in Pennsylvania may revive the debate over the rules surrounding voters’ signatures on the envelopes of mail-in ballots. In Pennsylvania, voters casting mail-in ballots place their marked ballot in an envelope, which they are required by law to sign and date. That envelope is then placed in a […]
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Lawsuit Seeks End to ‘Lawless’ Noncitizen Voting in Pennsylvania
By Naveen Athrappully The conservative advocacy group America First Legal (AFL) filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Department of State, seeking to end a directive that allows noncitizens to vote in state and federal elections. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 requires that an individual applying to vote must mention a current and […]
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GOP Leaders in Pennsylvania Embrace Mail-In Voting, Drop Boxes
By Beth Brelje Voting has changed in the United States, and the Pennsylvania Republican Party wants voters to change with it by becoming mail-in voters. Elections used to happen on a single day, and only a minority of people voted by absentee ballot. They were mostly military voters stationed out of the country, and people […]
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Fetterman Reveals Trump Still Strong in Pennsylvania: ‘Trump Signs Everywhere’
By Jack Phillips Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) stated that former President Donald Trump still enjoys significant support in Pennsylvania, adding that he sees “Trump signs everywhere.” In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Fetterman was asked about the former president’s indictment and whether there would be political fallout in the Keystone State among […]
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Pennsylvania County to Recount 2020 Election Results in 2023
By Beth Brelje Persistent questions from voters and a petition with 5,000 signatures have convinced the Lycoming County Commissioners in Pennsylvania to recount its 2020 election results. Around the state, loosely organized groups of voters have been asking various counties for recounts from 2020. “In our county, they approached our commissioners and leveled allegations that there were thousands of […]
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State Legal Bureau Claims Democrats Don’t Control Pennsylvania House
By Joe Gomez Democrats claim to hold power in the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives, but a legislative agency in the state has given an opinion to the contrary. In a legal opinion obtained by The Epoch Times, the nonpartisan Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau opines that “While the Democratic Party won a total of 102 elections to the House […]
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Pennsylvania County That Ran Out of Paper Ballots Fails to Certify Election Results
By Jack Phillips A county in Pennsylvania that didn’t have enough paper ballots on Election Day failed to certify the results of the Nov. 8 midterms by the Nov. 28 deadline. The Luzerne County Board of Elections split 2–2 to certify the results, while one member abstained from voting. It’s unclear what the next steps are. Republican board […]
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Trump, Biden, Obama Converge in Pennsylvania to Rally Voters
By Frank Fang Pennsylvania, a key state that will likely decide who controls the U.S. Senate, became a battleground for the titans on Nov. 5, when President Joe Biden teamed up with his former boss Barack Obama, and former President Donald Trump campaigned in dueling rallies in the Commonwealth. All three current and former presidents […]
