Election 2024

By Mark ScolforoASSOCIATED PRESS above photo: A polling judge, right, helps guide a voter’s ballot into a voting machine during the Pennsylvania primary election, at Mont Alto United Methodist Church in Alto, Pa., on May 17, 2022. Voter-by-voter electronic election records are not subject to public scrutiny, a Pennsylvania court ruled Monday, March 4, 2024,…

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He stays on ballot, but his legal peril is just starting By Nicholas RiccardiASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 4, 2024, where the justices restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol…

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Biden and Trump momentum can’t be slowed, Haley suspends campaign By Nicholas Riccardi and Brian SlodyskoASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, Republican candidate for governor, speaks at an election night event in Greensboro, N.C., Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) WASHINGTON — The picture of the presidential race has hardly…

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Editorial credit: Nagel Photography / Shutterstock.com HARRISBURG, Pa. — Two more candidates filed paperwork last Thursday to appear on Pennsylvania’s primary ballots for U.S. Senate as Democratic Sen. Bob Casey runs for a fourth term and Democrats try to maintain a majority in the narrowly divided chamber. Brandi Tomasetti, a Republican from Lancaster…

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By Marc LevyASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: Allegheny County workers scan mail-in and absentee ballots at the Allegheny County Election Division Elections warehouse in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) HARRISBURG, Pa.— Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled Wednesday that Republican state lawmakers can no longer try to enforce a subpoena for a wide…

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By Gary FieldsASSOCIATED PRESS ABOVE PHOTO: Esther Lee, president of the Bethlehem Chapter of the NAACP, talks about the presidential election in Bethlehem, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. President Joe Biden is warning that Donald Trump will be a grave threat to American democracy if he wins re-election, but interviews with Pennsylvania voters again suggest…

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By Brooke SchultzASSOCIATED PRESS HARRISBURG, Pa. — Democrats retained their slim majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday after voters elected a former school board member to represent them in a Philadelphia suburb that has been trending more to the left. Jim Prokopiak’s election to the Bucks County seat will give Democrats a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A voter feeds their paper ballot into a reader during the primary election, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, at the Millcreek Township 23rd District polling place at First Alliance Church, in Millcreek Township, Pa. Counties in Pennsylvania have told Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and lawmakers that it is too late to move up the…

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By Ali SwensonASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The Federal Communications Commission last Thursday outlawed robocalls that contain voices generated by artificial intelligence, a decision that sends a clear message that exploiting the technology to scam people and mislead voters won’t be tolerated. The unanimous ruling targets robocalls made with AI voice-cloning tools under the Telephone…

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By Ali SwensonASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta’s policies regarding manipulated media as “incoherent” and insufficient to address the flood of online disinformation that already has begun to target elections across the globe this year. The quasi-independent board on Monday said its review of an altered video of…

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