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Government & Politics

Why Trump wants to ban barcodes on ballots, and what it means for voters and election officials

Election workers scan ballots at the scanning stations of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office and Election Warehouse on Election Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 5, 2024.

Government & Politics

Helping to run an election in Pennsylvania often starts with running for election

Election workers review a mail-in ballot with an incorrect signature at Chester County's central scanning location in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Government & Politics

Redesigned envelope leads to fewer rejected ballots, but new issue arises

A voter places her absentee ballot in a monitored drop box in Dauphin County, PA.

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How Pennsylvania secures mail ballots, prevents fraud, and makes sure votes count

Donna Blatt, the Chief Registrar with the applications for mail-in ballots they have received at the Berks County Office of Election Services in the Berks County Services Building in Reading, PA

Government & Politics

Can Pennsylvania meet the new tighter federal deadline for certifying election results?

Pennsylvania elector Josh Shapiro casting his 2020 Electoral College ballot.

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This Pa. activist is the source of false and flawed election claims gaining traction across the country

illustration of Heather Honey

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Increase in ballot errors coincides with turnover among county election officials in Pennsylvania

Luzerne County official checks ballots on election night in 2023

Government & Politics

Working the polls cleared up one Pennsylvanian's 2020 election suspicions. Now he's taking charge as a judge of elections.

John "Jay" Schneider, 76, in Downingtown, Pa., on Oct. 30. Schneider is serving as a judge of elections for the first time, overseeing the Caln Township polling place. “You don’t know how much responsibility is there, and you don’t want to screw it up.”