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Democrats are eyeing an opportunity to reduce the Republican majority in the state House or win it outright thanks to population shifts over the past decade and more favorable districts.

Former Govs. Tom Ridge, Mark Schweiker, Ed Rendell, and Tom Corbett said the state’s election process will be “open and transparent.”

The city wants to discontinue a procedure used to catch people who vote both by mail and in person, arguing it’s duplicative of other effective measures.

Cedar Haven Healthcare Center, the former county home sold to private owners in 2014, has emerged from the bankruptcy its operator filed in August 2019, when it cited millions of dollars owed to over 200 creditors.

Everything you need to know about finding your polling place, what you need to bring to vote, and how to return your mail ballot.

Officials from some of the state’s biggest counties expect to be finished tabulating mail ballots by the day after the Nov. 8 election.

Despite its hasty passage, top Republican lawmakers said the bill’s language was negotiated for months, and that some of the proposals came out of the state’s spring budget talks.

It’s too late to register to vote or to request a mail ballot, but there’s still plenty that registered voters can do to be prepared.

The Republican lawmakers’ European excursion is the type of job perk that a gift ban would make impossible for elected officials and others in government, but the legislature has failed to pass one.

In a deadlocked decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court directed counties to segregate mail ballots that a voter did not date or incorrectly dated.

To flip the state House, a priority for Democrats, the party must win several swing districts and unseat popular Republican incumbents like Todd Stephens.

Researchers said the incomplete data were due to confusion over traffic stops that resulted in only a verbal warning, and that troopers have received updated instructions.