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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A yearlong investigation into suspected fraudulent voter registration forms submitted ahead of last year's presidential election produced criminal charges Friday against six street canvassers and the man who led their work in Pennsylvania.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to ignite the occupied Pennsylvania governor's mansion pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder and other charges.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Voters hoping to open up Pennsylvania's closed primary system to independents asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to declare the current system violates the state constitution's right to free and fair elections.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Thursday provided new details about the arson fire early Sunday that prompted his family's evacuation from the governor's official residence in Harrisburg, recounting how wife and four kids and their two dogs -- Bo and Bentley -- were awakened by state police and guided to safety.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Election boards in Pennsylvania's 67 counties may not invalidate mail-in ballots simply because they lack accurate, handwritten dates on their exterior return envelopes, a federal judge ruled Monday.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Democrat Dan Goughnour handily won a special election in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday, keeping majority control of the state House in his party's hands by a single seat.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Democrat Dan Goughnour is the winner of a special election in western Pennsylvania, keeping majority control of the state House in his party's hands.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's special election next week will determine whether Democrats or Republicans will control the state House, a glimpse of voter sentiment in the swing state that helped return President Donald Trump to the White House.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Friday it will again consider whether voters should have to write the accurate date on return envelopes used to send their completed mail-in ballots to be counted.
The U.S. Justice Department wants a judge to declare that a Pennsylvania city's method of electing council members citywide instead of by districts has illegally diluted the political power of its growing Hispanic population, arguing in a lawsuit that Hazleton is violating the federal Voting Rights Act.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday returned Democratic Speaker Joanna McClinton to lead the chamber for the new session after the Republican floor leader bowed out to resolve a deadlock.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A Democratic state representative's health problems could complicate the vote for Pennsylvania House speaker on Tuesday as the chamber's Democrats begin a new two-year session with the same one-seat margin that they had before the November election.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania court on Tuesday ruled 6-1 that the secretary of state has the authority to direct counties not to allow "unauthorized third party access" to voting machines or risk having those machines decertified and unable to be deployed for elections.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Democrats retained majority control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Friday by holding onto a Johnstown area district, giving them just enough votes to keep the speakership and determine the chamber's voting agenda.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania Republicans won the state attorney general's race and kept the other two statewide row offices Tuesday, while several legislative races were close and the partisan control of the state House hung in the balance.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvanians on Tuesday picked York County District Attorney Dave Sunday, a Republican, to serve as the state's next prosecutor.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania voters on Tuesday will decide whether to keep Democrats in control of the state House and maintain the Republican state Senate's majority, along with deciding who should be running state offices that prosecute crimes, handle billions in public money and keep a watch on how that money is spent.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Republicans wasted no time in appealing a Pennsylvania court decision that would relax the rules for mail ballots, asking the state Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a lower-court opinion issued one day earlier.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A divided Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Wednesday that the envelopes voters use to send in mail ballots do not need to have been accurately hand-dated, weighing in after the state Supreme Court sidestepped the issue and six days before the end of voting in the presidential election.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Investigations into potential fraud in voter registration applications in three Pennsylvania counties have become fodder for online misinformation, including from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit by six Republican members of Congress seeking to make Pennsylvania election officials institute new checks confirming the identity of soldiers, sailors, and others who vote from overseas and to make sure they're eligible.
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- Tech mogul Elon Musk, speaking at a town hall Saturday night in Pennsylvania to support Republican Donald Trump, played down the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and exhorted supporters to cast votes early in the presidential swing state while describing mail ballots as a "recipe for fraud."
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A criminal investigation is underway in the crucial presidential battleground of Pennsylvania after election workers in one county flagged about 2,500 voter registration forms for potential fraud. Two other counties were alerted to look for similar problems.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Officials in a Pennsylvania county said Friday an investigation has been launched because election workers identified about 2,500 voter registration forms that may be fraudulent.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A federal judge had some pointed questions but did not immediately rule Friday on a request that Pennsylvania election officials take new steps to verify the identification and eligibility of soldiers and others living overseas.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's legislative Republicans would like to pass additional voter ID requirements, restrict abortion and make election changes to improve their odds of winning judicial races. Democrats want to bump up the state's minimum wage and widen civil rights for LGBTQ people.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will take their fight for Pennsylvania to opposite ends of the state on Monday, with Harris speaking in the northwest corner in Erie and Trump in the southeastern suburbs of Philadelphia.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will take their fight for Pennsylvania to opposite ends of the state on Monday, with Harris speaking in the northwest corner of Erie and Trump in the southeastern suburbs of Philadelphia.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- One job going before voters across Pennsylvania this fall keeps a watch over government agencies. A second handles the state's money. And the third oversees hundreds of prosecutors.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A federal judge has turned down Cornel West's request to be included on the presidential ballot in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, expressing sympathy for his claim but saying it's too close to Election Day to make changes.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A Philadelphia family court judge has been suspended without pay for the last three months of his time on the bench after the Court of Judicial Discipline determined his politically charged social media posts violated jurists' behavioral standards.
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) -- Donald Trump is going back to Butler, where the world last saw him pump his fist and beseech followers to "fight," even as blood streaked his face from a would-be assassin's bullet.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania's highest court on Friday said it will consider whether counties must accept provisional ballots cast on election day at polling places by voters whose mail-in ballots lacked secrecy envelopes or were rejected for other flaws.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania state senator and former GOP gubernatorial candidate whose support for Donald Trump drew him to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has sued a Canadian university and nearly two dozen academics over criticism of him and his research into World War I hero Sgt. Alvin York.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania voters could have their mail-in ballots thrown out if they do not write accurate dates on envelopes they use to return them under a state Supreme Court ruling issued Friday that could impact the presidential race.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A man arrested last week at a Pennsylvania rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had hoped to hang a banner to protest Trump's policies, Johnstown's police chief said Tuesday.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A state court Friday halted enforcement of a requirement that voters include accurate, handwritten dates on envelopes used to submit mail-in ballots, a ruling likely to keep several thousand Pennsylvania votes from being thrown out in the November election.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A technical requirement that Pennsylvania voters write accurate dates on the exterior envelope of mail-in ballots was again the subject of a court proceeding on Thursday as advocates argued the mandate unfairly leads to otherwise valid votes being thrown out.