The last day in Pennsylvania to register to vote for this election is October 20. You may also realize there are other issues and possibly case law. So, this is an update with some new information from recent case law and practice.
Democrats are putting abortion access, election integrity, and redistricting at the front lines of the PA Supreme Court retention election.
A yearlong investigation into suspected fraudulent voter registration forms submitted ahead of last year's presidential election produced criminal charges Friday against six street canvassers and the man who led their work in Pennsylvania.
Next month's election, voters get to decide if they want to retain three Justices on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court. WESA politics editor Chris Potter helps make sense of the vote.
On Nov. 4, you can bring your blank mail ballot to the polls and surrender it and the outer return envelope and vote in person. If you did not vote by mail but do not still have your mail ballot or the envelope to surrender at your polling place, you can vote in person on Election Day by provisional ballot.
Matthew Wolford (R) and Stella Tsai (R) diverge on what they see as the most pressing concerns facing the court. Michael Wojcik (D) is up for a retention vote.
The AG's office determined the crimes were not motivated by efforts to sway any election or voter rolls for any specific party or candidate.
It’s just that this year, partisan politics hang on retention elections like TP on trees at Halloween. Ironic given retentions, with no opponents, no party affiliation on the ballot, were adopted, as the Pennsylvania League of Women Voters proposed 58 years ago, to “help keep the courts out of politics and politics out of the courts.”
Three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices are up for retention this year, and millions have been spent already on advertising aimed at retaining or unseating them.
Attorney General Dave Sunday has announced criminal charges against several individuals, including a field director, for submitting falsified voter registration forms in multiple Pennsylvania counties.