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A top GOP lawyer wants to crack down on the college vote. States already are

BY: - April 30, 2023

Efforts to make it difficult for students and other young people to vote are almost as old as the 26th Amendment.

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The MAGA threat isn’t just in Washington. We’re facing it in Pa., too | Opinion

BY: - September 6, 2022

The polling is clear, Pennsylvanians oppose efforts to overthrow our elections.

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Pa. Republicans are weaponizing the state Constitution. No one wins there | Tuesday Morning Coffee

BY: - July 6, 2021

It's hard to amend the Constitution for a reason: To keep it from falling prey to short-term agendas

As GOP shifts strategy from election lawsuits to laws, voting rights advocates warn of plummeting participation

BY: - March 31, 2021

The policy debate over voting rights and election integrity has exploded in state houses across the country, ignited by last year’s contentious elections where more people voted — particularly by absentee and mail — than ever before.

Across the nation, and in Pa., Republican wave of voting restrictions swells | Analysis

BY: - March 28, 2021

Voting rights activists worried this year could bring a tsunami of new voting restrictions. It’s arrived.

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No, expanding voting doesn’t increase fraud | Opinion

BY: - March 19, 2021

A record number of people voted in the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump lost, Joe Biden won. Now, GOP legislators across the country are trying to pass measures to limit voting.

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The big lesson of 2020: We have to fight to preserve and expand the right to the vote | Opinion

BY: - December 16, 2020

Greater participation – more Americans exercising this fundamental right – brings us closer to the more perfect union.

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Counties need partnership, not partisanship for meaningful improvements to election policies | Opinion

BY: - November 18, 2020

Pennsylvania needs to talk about the administration of the 2020 election. This has to be nonpartisan. And counties have to be at the table.

Trump lawyer tells MontCo judge he has no evidence of fraud, report

BY: - November 12, 2020

An attorney representing President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign in a case in Montgomery County admitted in open court this week that he had no evidence of voter fraud, according to a published report. The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee filed suit against the Montgomery County Board of Elections in an attempt to get the […]

Pa. Republicans backstop Trump, Congressional GOP on unproven claims of stolen election

BY: - November 11, 2020

Some Republicans in Congress are agreeing with President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the election was stolen from him, and backing legal challenges to voting results in states won by President-elect Joe Biden.

The polls have closed in Pa.: Here’s what happens next.

BY: - November 3, 2020

We wrote this guide to help voters better understand how their vote gets counted, and what they can expect from local and state officials in the days and weeks ahead.