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U.S. Rep. Fred Keller Today, Congress will meet in a joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate to count the Electoral College votes. I will object to the certification of Pennsylvania’s electors due to unconstitutional actions taken by Gov. Tom Wolf, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that exceeded and circumvented the state Legislature’s clear constitutional authority to set election proceedings. These actions include, but are certainly n...

TOM LISI www.SpotlightPA.org (Editor’s Note: This article is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. This article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy.) A week before the Nov. 3 election, state officials urged voters not to risk a late arrival of their ballot through the mail and instead to return it in person. All voters could do that at their county election office, but some ...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Cites Scalia Quote on ‘Insanity’ When Asking SCOTUS to Shut Down Trump Campaign’s ‘Profoundly Incoherent’ Petition Matt Naham © Provided by Law & Crime WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 03: President Donald Trump speaks about the election after presenting the Medal of Freedom to former college football coach Lou Holtz in the Oval Office of the White House on December 3, 2020 in Washington, DC. Holtz is best known for his time as head coach of U...

Josh Shapiro (D) opposed President The Trump campaign and its allies have gotten nowhere as far as post-election litigation is concerned, whether in state courts across the land or any level of the federal courts—especially the Supreme Court. But President Trump has repeatedly said he has “JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT,” perhaps referencing a quote attributed to John Paul Jones. Attorney General Shapiro and his office noted, at length, that the president’s campaign and Republican allies have tr...

Tom Lisi Some sites in Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia (where voters are shown here, at Tilden Middle School) saw long lines of voters who wanted to request a mail ballot without having to risk U.S. Postal Service problems. JESSICA GRIFFIN / Philadelphia Inquirer The Eagles mascot, Swoop, and team cheerleaders greeted voters dropping off their mail ballots at a satellite election office site at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Nov. 2, 2020. MONICA HERNDON / ...

. HARRISBURG — A week before the Nov. 3 election, state officials urged voters not to risk a late arrival of their ballot through the mail and instead to return it in person. All voters could do that at their county election office, but some Pennsylvanians had the additional options of drop boxes and satellite locations. The latter expanded the number of places where people could essentially vote early, by requesting a ballot in person and submitting it on the same day. Of the state’s 67...

Liz DyeDecember 21, 2020 12:06 PM Vote Them Out Donald Trump GIF by Women’s March Broadly speaking, the post-election litigation can be divided into two buckets: 1) the Kraken batshit fraud claims, which sometimes put on their party dresses and pretend to be legit challenges to signature matching technology; and 2) the suits that allege state officials unconstitutionally usurped the power of state legislatures to govern electoral procedures. The Kraken suits get oxygen from the wingnu...

Jessica Griffin / Philadelphia Inquirer A week before the Nov. 3 election, state officials urged voters not to risk a late arrival of their ballot through the mail and instead to return it in person. All voters could do that at their county election office, but some Pennsylvanians had the additional options of drop boxes and satellite locations. The latter expanded the number of places where people could essentially vote early, by requesting a ballot in person and submitting it on the same...

The 17 wildest things that happened during early voting FacebookTwitterEmail From threats to spitting, police had their hands full investigating these incidents during early voting in 2020.Melissa Phillip/Staff photographer A new report shows each and every interaction that police had with enraged voters, disgruntled poll workers and errant election judges during the 2020 election in Harris County. The Precinct 1 Constables Office led the Harris County Election Security Task Force, a small unit...

Reply Pennsylvania was of enormous importance on the national stage in 2020, a year unlike any other in political history. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) PENNSYLVANIA — 2020 was extraordinary for Pennsylvania for dozens of reasons, but not the least of which was the fact that the state took center stage in national politics for almost the entire calendar year. From the pandemic, mail-in ballots, a lengthy primary and general election campaign, all the way down to a bitter and seemingly en...