The Pennsylvania Department of State paid law firms over $3.4 million for work on election-related lawsuits. They came from at least three political parties.
By Julia Agos The court had previously held that a petition signature could not be invalidated just because the voter’s address did not match their voter registration address.
Charles McCullough’s incarceration comes as voters decide whether to back his wife, Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough, in her bid for an open seat on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court.
Republican Pat Toomey is retiring, opening up a seat in a swing state that is likely to be among the country’s most competitive races next year.
Another candidate is entering the Democratic primary race for Pennsylvania’s 2022 U.S. Senate election.
The Mayor of Braddock said she’s had more contact with the Philadelphia Democrat in the last month than she has with John Fetterman in years.
Counties are preparing to run the primary under the same rules that drew complaints in November.
Veronica Degraffenreid, a former senior election official in North Carolina, became Gov. Tom Wolf’s nominee to head of his Department of State, which oversees elections in Pennsylvania.
