Litigation over mail-in ballots is heating up in Pennsylvania, and so is the legislative response.
On Sept. 2, the Pennsylvania House approved changes to the state’s new mail-in voting law. The bill, which was authored by Republican legislators, was passed 112-90 on a nearly party-line vote. The bill will allow counties to start processing mail-in ballots three days before the Nov. 3 election in the hopes of speeding up vote-counting as concerns have begun mounting lately that the results of the contentious presidential election could be delayed for days as officials from the Keystone State count the ballots. During the June primary thousands of Pennsylvanians received their mail-in ballots after the election.
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