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As Pennsylvania’s primary election day rapidly approaches, officials are encouraging registered voters to make a plan to cast their ballots, whether that means voting in person, voting by mail or dropping off a completed ballot in a secure drop box.
The ballot questions were widely seen as a referendum on Governor Tom Wolf’s administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in Pennsylvania.
Voters in Northampton County–widely seen as a bellwether for the 2020 presidential election–will use machines that in 2019 caused voting errors and miscounts.
As many as 80 million Americans–including hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians–are expected to cast their ballots at a mailbox instead of inside a polling station Nov. 3; a statistic voting rights advocates have cheered, but opponents have criticized.
The United States Postal Service is in trouble, elected officials from the Lehigh Valley said in a news conference Tuesday, and they’re not going to stand by and do nothing to try and help it.
Registered voters in Hellertown and Lower Saucon Township are preparing to cast their votes on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. This election is as important as any other, with several contested races for positions that have the greatest impact on our daily lives.
Calling it a “relic,” State Sen. Lisa Boscola (D-18) announced Tuesday that a ballot reform initiative she’s introduced would do away with the straight party voting option in Pennsylvania’s elections.
Lower Saucon Township councilmen Glenn Kern and Ron Horiszny announced in a news release Thursday that they will be on the May 16 primary ballot because they are seeking re-election to township council.