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Pennsylvania is one of 10 states with closed primaries that exclude independents. Many lawmakers want to change this, but leaders haven’t committed.

Democrats and Republicans will choose their parties’ candidates for a vacancy on Commonwealth Court and on Superior Court. The winners will compete in the November general election.

Montgomery County offers various voting options for the 2025 Primary, including mail-in and extended hours at satellite offices.

An "open primary" system could allow more voters to cast ballots in May. But that would require a change to Pennsylvania's election laws. Polling shows voters want that. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Pennsylvania voters are being ...

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Philip Moss, 83, of Boca Raton, had been scheduled for a hearing Thursday before Magisterial District Judge Sloan Walker, but instead entered a straight waiver on charges of declare as resident when individual is not legal resident and violations relating to absentee/mail-in ballots.

The Pa. Supreme Court reprimanded him as a lawyer. Philly Democrats want to make him a judge anyway. Judicial candidates like Shawn Page who win the party’s endorsement almost always triumph in the primary.

When Marryka Beck didn’t receive her mail ballot as expected ahead of the November 2024 election, the West Virginia University student knew she would have to drive back to Pennsylvania and vote provisionally on Election Day. At her polling place in ...

On May 20, you can bring your blank mail ballot to the polls and surrender it and the outer return envelope and vote in person. If you did not vote by mail but do not still have your mail ballot or the envelope to surrender at your polling place, you can vote by provisional ballot.

As the number of independent voters grows, there is broad bipartisan support among Pennsylvania voters for allowing the state’s 1.4 million independents to participate in primary elections, says a new poll.

Voting is about to begin in Berks County. Election officials said the first batch of about 16,000 mail ballots are being sent to voters who requested them and should begin arriving in mailboxes this week.