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House votes for GOP-favored congressional redistricting plan

By MARK SCOLFOROJanuary 12, 2022 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A plan to redraw lines for Pennsylvania's congressional districts to account for a decade of population shifts passed the state House on Wednesday with a partisan vote that signaled lawmakers face more redistricting work ahead.

Lawmakers to take first steps toward new congressional map

By MARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVYDecember 9, 2021 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Republican-controlled state House committee planned to vote on a proposed map of Pennsylvania's new congressional districts that its chair introduced into legislation Wednesday, as a rival map was being prepared in the Senate where lawmakers promise an open process with debate and public comment.

Wolf describes having wife drop off ballot as honest mistake

November 5, 2021 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said his mail-in ballot was dropped off by his wife before Tuesday's election despite a state law requirement that voters deliver them in person.

Wolf's spokeswoman Beth Rementer called it an honest mistake.

GOP election bill sponsor takes case to Wolf news conference

By MARK SCOLFOROJune 17, 2021 GMT

The partisan political debate over potential changes to how Pennsylvania registers voters and runs elections moved Thursday from the Capitol in Harrisburg to suburban Philadelphia, where the leading House Republican on the topic showed up at a news conference by Democratic Gov.

House GOP unveils ambitious proposal to revamp election law

By MARK SCOLFOROJune 10, 2021 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — An ambitious Republican proposal to revamp Pennsylvania election law was unveiled Thursday, a 149-page bill that would change deadlines, adopt new rules for early voting, alter mail-in ballot procedures and mandate IDs for all in-person voters.

GOP fight over 2020 election audit brews in Pennsylvania

By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFOROJune 3, 2021 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A key member of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives is flatly rejecting talk of any sort of audit of the 2020 presidential election, a day after three fellow Republican state lawmakers toured the Arizona Senate GOP’s audit.

Voter ID is a flashpoint in Pennsylvania election law talks

By MARC LEVYMay 7, 2021 GMT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans wanting stricter voter identification provisions in Pennsylvania is emerging as an early flashpoint with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in what GOP lawmakers cast as a top-to-bottom update of state election law following a presidential contest that Donald Trump still baselessly maintains was stolen from him...