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HARRISBURG Pennsylvania’s top election official spent nearly three hours Thursday defending her handling of the 2020 presidential election and calling for an end to the “lies that have been proven again and again to be false.”
The meeting of the House State Government Committee centered on what in any other election would have been mundane guidance to counties on how to handle certain problems with mail ballots. But with intense national focus on Pennsylvania, that guidance became a flashpoint.
After the election, GOP leadership seized on Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar’s actions to cast doubt on the results. The top Republicans in the Senate called for her resignation, while leaders from both chambers asked Congress to reject the state’s electors for President Joe Biden.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s top election official spent nearly three hours Thursday defending her handling of the 2020 presidential election and calling for an end to the “lies that have been
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HARRISBURG The start of the 2021-22 legislative session brings renewed calls to give greater priority to expanding high-speed Internet access to unserved and underserved areas of rural and urban Pennsylvania.
The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania has just unveiled its priorities for 2021 placing broadband expansion No. 2 on its list.
Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Lycoming, chairman of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, wrote an op-ed this week suggesting that “more needs to be done to ensure this essential service is available, and affordable, for all of our rural residents.”
The county commissioners want greater emphasis on creating partnerships among Washington, state and local government and the private sector to develop strategies for broadband expansion in Pennsylvania. The commissioners suggest that higher education and research centers can help develop the data needed to support broadband expansion.