Pennsylvania: GOP-led House OKs changes to mail-in voting law; veto threatened

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

House OKs changes to mail-in voting law; veto threatened

By MARC LEVY
September 2, 2020

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In the shadow of an increasingly strident presidential campaign, Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives approved changes to the state’s fledgling mail-in voting law Wednesday, but in highly partisan fashion.

The Republican-penned bill passed, 112-90, on a near party-line vote in the battleground state where President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Democratic Party are already in court seeking favorable decisions on how Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting should be administered in the Nov. 3 election.

Warnings about voter fraud and accusations of voter suppression flew in the chamber.

The vote came after a fruitless summer of discussions between Republican lawmakers and Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, on a compromise to fix gray areas and glitches exposed in the June 2 primary election in Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law.

Wolf will veto it, his office said Wednesday.

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[mzmolly]

1. The writing is on the wall

Election theft by suppressing mail in ballots.

Thank goodness there is a Democratic Governor, but that doesn't mean those who can pull shit in various places will not pull shit.