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Mail-in voting law spurring new tensions over elections

By Soapbox Group
June 4, 2021
  • Pennsylvania
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By: Marc Levy

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — County officials reprised their call Tuesday for fixes to Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law to help them run a smoother election in November, as a fight brewed over whether counties must throw out mailed-in ballots without the voter’s handwritten date on the envelope.

The counties’ call for action comes amid a partisan stalemate over how to fix shortcomings or gray areas in Pennsylvania’s 2019 expansive mail-in voting law that, for the first time, allowed no-excuse mail in ballots.

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