Report says some Pennsylvania voters disenfranchised by inconsistencies from county-to-county

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  Scott LaMar has worked in both radio and television for more than four decades.
  
  Currently, LaMar is the Host and Executive Producer of The Spark program on WITF-FM, 89.5 & 93.3 in Harrisburg, Pa.
  
  Previously, LaMar was WITF TV’s Sr. Public Affairs producer and produced the station’s award-winning weekly public affairs TV program, Smart Talk.
  
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  A native of Coatesville, Pa., LaMar has also worked as a broadcast news anchor, sports play-by-play announcer and manager.

 Matt Smith / For Spotlight PA

Mail ballots turned in on Election Day 2022 in Pennsylvania, like ones seen here in Lehigh County, had to have a date on the outer envelope.

Airdate: March 3, 2023

Pennsylvania voters did not have equal opportunities to cast or correct their ballots during the November 2022 election, the latter producing a disparity that disenfranchised hundreds of voters. That’s the first sentence from a recent first-of-its kind report on all 67 Pennsylvania counties from Spotlight PA. The focus was on mail in ballots and how counties dealt with them in 2022. The bottom line, there isn’t consistency across the state on one of democracy’s most fundamental rights and liberties.

Kate Huangpu is the Spotlight PA reporter who investigated this story and was with us on The Spark Friday.

Read the Spotlight PA story here.