Pennsylvania

Since the passage of the 2019 law that made sweeping changes to voting in Pennsylvania, at least 21 election officials have left or will soon leave their posts.

Research shows that race and ethnicity play a big role in political attitudes. But race-specific voter data is not easy to come by.

With the election behind us, Black journalists across the country reflect on covering the 2020 general election.

Voters could request a mail ballot just seven days before the Nov. 3 election, making it difficult for county offices to send them out and receive them back by the deadline.

Normally a formality in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, the meeting has received far greater attention than usual as President Donald Trump continues to deny the results of November’s election.

The pandemic and a new vote-by-mail system overwhelmed already overworked election offices, but some tapped federal pandemic stimulus money to help cover costs.

Studies show that voters of color tend to vote in-person at higher rates than their white counterparts. Black Pennsylvania voters share their challenges of trying to cast a ballot by mail.

More than 500,000 Philadelphia adults struggle to read and write. But they still vote. Here are their stories.

The effort is another attempt by Republican lawmakers to undermine the outcome of November’s election.

While many lawmakers agree changes are needed, finding common ground in the current hyper-partisan climate might be difficult — if not impossible.

Donald Trump won 86% of the Pennsylvania counties that used Dominion devices, while state Republicans who are now echoing the president’s distrust of the machines performed well in the 2020 election.

509,933 Philadelphians — over two-thirds of those who voted in the city during the national election — said yes to replacing the chronically underfunded Police Advisory Commission (PAC) that oversees police conduct in the city, with a new Citizen Police Oversight Commission (CPOC). 

Spotlight PA and Votebeat interviewed eight Allegheny County poll workers, who suggested the success seen on Nov. 3 was far from inevitable.

Only President-elect Joe Biden’s electors will go to Harrisburg on Dec. 14 to formally cast their support for the former vice president, who won Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes.

In voting down the measure, the panel’s two Democrats said the audit would be duplicative of one already required by law.