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 […]
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Biden Comment on Shutting Coal Plants Lost Pennsylvania for Democrats: Ex-White House Adviser
By Jack Phillips President Joe Biden may have lost votes in Pennsylvania’s statewide races after he made a comment about shutting down coal plants, said a former White House economic adviser. “In some sense, Biden seemingly channeled Hillary Clinton’s comment back in 2016 in West Virginia and Ohio, when she was talking about shutting down the coal mines, and she […]
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders Undated, Wrongly Dated Ballots to Not Be Counted
By Mimi Nguyen Ly The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered counties to not count any ballots that are in undated or incorrectly dated envelopes in the upcoming Nov. 8 elections, siding with national and state Republican groups in a lawsuit filed just over two weeks ago. “The Pennsylvania county boards of elections are hereby ORDERED to refrain […]
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Pennsylvania’s Department of State Has Sent Out 249,000 Ballots to Unverified Voters in 2022 Election
By Beth Brelje In Pennsylvania, the Department of State has allowed at least 249,000 unverified voters to receive mail-in ballots so far in the 2022 general election, due to an odd process for verifying the identity of those requesting mail-in ballots where people vote first and verify their identification later. The Department of State also recently changed directives […]
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Republicans Sue Pennsylvania Officials Who Said They’ll Accept Mail-In Ballots Without Dates
By Zachary Stieber Republicans have sued Pennsylvania officials after the state’s top elections official said mail-in ballots without dates will be accepted, in contravention to state law. A group of Pennsylvania voters, the Republican National Committee, and the Pennsylvania Republican Party filed the lawsuit (pdf) with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, asking justices to quickly declare illegal guidance from the […]
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Jan. 6 Panel May Try to Influence Pennsylvania Governor’s Race: Mastriano Attorney
By Beth Brelje State Sen. Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, is scheduled to meet with the Jan. 6 Committee Aug. 9. It was to be a voluntary interview, but the committee is now demanding a compelled deposition. “Your committee is not legally able to conduct compelled depositions, which is why all of my clients have […]
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Pennsylvania GOP Voters Predict Preferred 2024 Presidential Nominee
By Beth Brelje The Pennsylvania Department of State counts 4 million registered Democratic voters in the state and 3.5 million Republicans as of May 2022. But even with 550,000 more Democrats than Republicans, Pennsylvania is not quite a blue state. It is more purple, with 1.3 million registered voters who call themselves libertarian, Green, or […]
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Pennsylvania Patriots Join Forces to Demand Election Integrity
By Beth Brelje Representatives from more than 70 political activism groups in Pennsylvania are demanding that their legislators repeal no-excuse mail-in voting and secure the commonwealth’s election processes. Many of them gathered at the capital in Harrisburg on May 11. Leaders from each group signed an “election integrity declaration” calling for the legislature to return the law to […]
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Questions Linger About Pennsylvania’s 2020 Election Results and GOP Response
By Beth Brelje The certified 2020 election results in Pennsylvania show Joe Biden won with 80,555 more votes than Donald Trump. But when then-Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar certified the vote on Nov. 24, 2020, the state had 784,752 more ballots than voters; nearly ten times more than Biden’s margin of victory. There are legitimate reasons for over-votes; for […]
