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Only Pennsylvanians are voting for these positions. No other state still elects its poll workers, and these contests are usually riddled with vacancies.

From preserving open space to funding local police, here's a round-up of ballot referendum questions in Chester and Montgomery counties.

Eight candidates are vying for six open seats on the Oley Valley school board, which has made national headlines for controversial and extreme actions.

This November’s retention elections for judges on Pennsylvania’s appellate courts are shaping up to be more combative and political than usual, thanks in part to a decade of battles over the commonwealth’s election laws.

An amendment to the Pennsylvania Election Code made voting by mail without an excuse an option for voters for the first time in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, the question of whether the requirement to write the date on a mail ballot’s return envelope has been an issue in every election.

A 2020 case of double voting in Pennsylvania was discovered using information from ERIC, a data-sharing consortium that has come under attack from conservatives in recent years.

Pack had been registered to vote in Bergen County since 2004 and in Philadelphia County since 2016, casting ballots in the 2024 General Election in both locations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Pennsylvania said.

Two Pennsylvania residents are facing federal election fraud charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced on Friday, Sept. 5.Matthew Laiss, 31, of Bethlehem,