US EditionDemocrats endorse set of changes to Pennsylvania election rules, sending bill to state Senate
- The Pennsylvania House passed a bill on May 13, 2025, to expand early in-person voting and modify mail-in ballot processing, sending it to the state Senate.
- Lawmakers sought to improve election access after prior partisan conflicts, but the bill excludes a mandatory voter ID despite GOP demands, causing division.
- The bill requires counties to provide early voting sites and multiple ballot drop boxes, allows earlier pre-canvassing of mail ballots, and changes recount rules.
- The House voted 102 to 101 largely along party lines, with Democrats backing the bill and Republicans opposing it, while House Majority Leader Bradford noted that Republicans have long pushed for legislation like this.
- The bill faces uncertain prospects in the GOP-controlled Senate, where leaders insist voter ID must be implemented by constitutional amendment, so bipartisan negotiations continue.
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Pa. House passes election reform bill but voter ID goes to sidelines
By Ford Turner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG — Majority Democrats in the state House on Tuesday gave final approval to a wide-ranging election reform bill that included changes involving drop boxes, mail ballots, and early voting, as a separate and much-discussed bill on voter ID got sidelined. The reform bill sponsored by Democratic Speaker Joanna McClinton of Philadelphia and Delaware counties passed on 102-101 vote with little debate, a…
Pennsylvania Democrats Pass Sweeping Election Overhaul Through the House - Bucks County Beacon
Written by Stephen Caruso, Spotlight PA, and Carter Walker, Votebeat This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. HARRISBURG — A sweeping bill to overhaul the commonwealth’s election laws has passed the Pennsylvania House. Its changes would include creating in-person early voting, giving counties more time to process mail ballots, and requiring counties…
Pa. Democrats pass sweeping election overhaul through the House, but skip GOP-priority voter ID • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Doors to the House floor at the Pennsylvania Capitol, where Democratic lawmakers voted to pass sweeping election legislation on May 13. (Kriston Jae Bethel/Votebeat) This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. A sweeping bill to overhaul the commonwealth’s election laws has passed the Pennsylvania House. Its changes would include creating in-person ear…
Democrats endorse set of changes to Pa. election rules, sending bill to state Senate
Pennsylvania voters would get more than a week of early voting and county election officials would have more time to start processing mail-in ballots under an election law proposal that advanced out of the state House on Tuesday by a single vote, with all Republicans opposed.
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