Election 2024

HARRISBURG, Pa. -– The Shapiro administration has implemented a new program from the U.S. Department of Education that allows eligible college students in Pennsylvania and across the country to use Federal Work Study (FWS) funding to work in get-out-the-vote activities, election offices, polling places, and other nonpartisan civic engagement employment opportunities. Secretary of the Commonwealth…

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ABOVE PHOTO: U.S. Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) stands for a portrait overlooking the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) By Marc LevyASSOCIATED PRESS HARRISBURG, Pa. — An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war…

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ABOVE PHOTO: This combination of photos shows President Donald Trump, left, and then-former Vice President Joe Biden during the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, 2020, in Cleveland, Ohio. Twelve news organizations issued a joint statement calling on the presumptive presidential nominees President Biden and former President Trump to agree to debates during the 2024…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Pennsylvania House Speaker Rep. Joanna McClinton, a Philadelphia Democrat, presides over a Pennsylvania House of Representatives session on April 10, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. Democrats are hoping to retain their narrow majority control over the chamber in this year’s legislative elections. (AP Photo/Mark Pynes, File) By Mark ScolforoASSOCIATED PRESS HARRISBURG, Pa. — The…

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There are a number of critical city, state and federal offices at stake in this year’s primary election. In the federal contests, Pennsylvanians will be electing candidates for the offices of president and vice president of the United States, one U.S. senator and U.S. representatives. In the statewide contests, Pennsylvanians will be selecting an attorney…

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If Keir Bradford-Grey becomes Pennsylvania’s next Attorney General, one of the Commonwealth’s last electoral hurdles will finally be cleared. By Denise Clay-Murray Anyone who follows electoral politics in Pennsylvania knows that running for office as a woman in the Commonwealth is not an easy road. For example, Democrats did relatively well in 2016 with the…

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ABOVE PHOTO: SCREEN SHOT By Melissa GoldinASSOCIATED PRESS CLAIM Social Security Administration data shows the number of voters registering without a photo ID is skyrocketing in three key swing states, evidence that migrants who entered the country illegally are registering to vote in Arizona, Texas and Pennsylvania. AP’S ASSESSMENT False. Election officials in all three…

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FILE – Chester County, Pa. election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots at West Chester University in West Chester on Nov. 4, 2020. Law enforcement agencies, civil defense officials and election administrators have begun meeting in Pennsylvania to coordinate how they will identify and fight election threats with the presidential contest just eight months away…

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This month, New Mexico joined at least 21 other states that ban guns where people vote. ABOVE PHOTO: A gun rights advocate with an “I VOTED” sticker on his holster gathers with others for an annual rally on the steps of the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, May 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) By…

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