election lawsuits

September 10, 2025 | 6:04 PM

Constitutionality of mail-ballot date requirement raised before Pa. Supreme Court

Court weighs whether rejecting ballots for lack of date is a risk voters choose to take or a constitutional violation.

By Jordan Wilkie/WITF

August 23, 2024 | 3:35 PM

Butler County voting case heads to state court

The case could standardize county rules when voters make errors in returning mail ballots.

By Jordan Wilkie/WITF

March 7, 2024 | 11:53 AM

ACLU sues Central Pa. county over election transparency

York County limits access to view vote counting process to political appointee watchers

By Jordan Wilkie/WITF

February 15, 2023 | 5:00 AM

Pa. Senate GOP committee head is non-committal about continuing a 2020 election probe

A state court just cleared the Senate’s Intergovernmental Operations committee to press on with its nearly two-year long investigation.

By Sam Dunklau

Updated: 2022-11-04 15:19:16

A Western Pa. group is among those preparing to challenge midterm election results

By Sam Dunklau

September 15, 2022 | 5:04 AM

‘A theft of taxpayer resources’: Delaware County still paying to fend off election fraud lawsuits from 2020

While the county has a pristine 15-0 record in the courtroom, county Solicitor Bill Martin said, all of that winning comes at a cost.

By Kenny Cooper/WHYY

August 21, 2021 | 6:57 AM

Pennsylvania county sues over decertified voting system

A county in southern Pennsylvania is asking a court to reverse the order by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s top elections official.

By The Associated Press

Updated: 2021-04-13 13:04:25

Some in power are still mad that Pa.’s Supreme Court ruled on election law. Here’s why it matters now.

Several court watchers say the belief is more complicated than it seems, while political strategists say it’s part of a wider plan to make voting in Pennsylvania more difficult.

By Sam Dunklau

December 24, 2020 | 10:39 AM

Presidential election hostilities may fuel fight over courts

Republicans who control the state Legislature could use the first weeks of 2021 to fast-track a constitutional amendment that would remake the Democratic-majority state Supreme Court after Republicans and President Donald Trump accused the court of acting illegally or, baselessly, conspiring to steal the election.

By Marc Levy/Associated Press

December 15, 2020 | 7:46 AM

Mailed ballots, tight deadlines caused a crunch for Pa. elections officials. Now, comes the reckoning.

Roughly 10,000 ballots that arrived in that extended window are still sequestered should the high court decide to intervene, though that number is not enough to change results from any statewide races.

By Tom Lisi/Spotlight PA

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