Supreme Court Keeps Mail-In Voting in Place, For Now
Mail-in voting received a stay of execution Tuesday. Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law will remain in place after a one-paragraph order from the state’s Supreme Court.
Mail-in voting received a stay of execution Tuesday. Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law will remain in place after a one-paragraph order from the state’s Supreme Court.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has made a decision on a new congressional map for the Keystone State for the remainder of the decade. In a 4-3 decision, the high court selected the so-called Carter map, drawn by a Stanford professor and proposed by Democratic plaintiffs.
Earlier this morning, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an order temporarily suspending the General Primary Election calendar relative to elections for seats in the General Assembly pending further order of the Court.
Getting on the primary ballot has never been more difficult for aspiring candidates to statewide office. A Wolf administration proposal to shorten the petition period from 19 to 12 days raises the bar for political campaigns to obtain the necessary signatures to qualify for the May 17 ballot.
House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) filed a lawsuit on Thursday that asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to discard the newly approved legislative maps and reinstate the previous maps of a decade ago.
Mary Hannah Leavitt, president judge emerita of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, has set March 15 as the date when the mail-in ballot law will be stricken.
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We need help. That was the overarching theme of the Senate State Government Committee hearing Tuesday in Harrisburg. The committee heard from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP).
It’s being talked about within the ivy-covered walls of The Ivy League. It has the attention of political candidates and state houses. And it has become a culture war between proponents and opponents of transgender participation in scholastic and intercollegiate athletics. How long will Pennsylvania politicians be able to avoid making the topic an issue in the campaign?
Will the 24-year NEPA veteran run in a newly-drawn district, retire, or is there another option?