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On today’s episode of The Confluence: More than 1.2 million Pennsylvania voters have requested a mail-in ballot for this year’s midterm, we discuss how the state is preparing for November’s election with mounting legal challenges; and how might redrawn districts for state House and Senate races impact the election outcomes? Today’s guests include: Leigh Chapman, Pennsylvania’s acting Secretary of State; and Chris Potter, WESA’s government and accountability editor.

Republican candidates have scrubbed their websites of hardline anti-abortion rhetoric and changed their stances ahead of the general election.

Open primaries and runoff elections in PA? Average gas price hits $5 in Keystone State. Senate passes bill to prohibit transgender athletes out of girls’ sports. Here is the Playbook.

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An Allegheny County judge has ordered a recount of the ballots cast in the May 18 primary for two candidates seeking the Democratic nomination to run for the Ward 8 commissioner’s seat in Ross Township. Democrats Lauren Hergert and Denise Rickenbrode each received 235 votes, according to an unofficial tally

The winner of a tied race for the Democratic nomination to run for Ross Township’s Ward 8 commissioner seat will be determined by a flip of a coin, according to county officials. In the race for the Democratic nomination in the May 18 primary, candidates Lauren Hergert and Denise Rickenbrode

Three of the four Ross Township commissioners who are up for reelection this year faced no opposition in the primary for party nominations, but could face challenges for their seats in November’s general election from people who received write-in votes. Three candidates — two Democrats and a Republican — ran

Three of the four Ross Township commissioners who are up for reelection this year will not face a challenge for their party’s nomination in the May 18 primary. Three candidates — two Democrats and a Republican — are running in the primary to fill a vacancy for the fourth seat