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Ex-Philadelphia official picked for key elections post

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Al Schmidt will be nominated to be Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro's secretary of state. Schmidt is currently president and CEO of the Committee of Seventy, a good-government group. The $165,000-salary job involves overseeing how the state's 67 counties run their elections.

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Reuters

Republican who defied Trump tapped to oversee Pennsylvania elections

Pennsylvania's newly elected Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro has named a Republican who resisted former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud to oversee the battleground state’s elections.

1 year ago·United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

Incoming Pa. governor taps GOP ex-official for election post

A former Philadelphia election official who has told of enduring death threats whipped up by Donald Trump for defending the city’s 2020 vote-counting against the former president’s lies will be

1 year ago·United States

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CNN

Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Shapiro taps Republican targeted by Trump for top state elections job

Democrat Josh Shapiro, the incoming Pennsylvania governor, announced Thursday that he has selected Republican Al Schmidt, a leading opponent of former President Donald Trump's efforts to disrupt the counting of votes in 2020, to become secretary of the commonwealth, the state's top elections official.

1 year ago·Atlanta, United States

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KRDO

Ex-Philadelphia official picked for key elections post

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former Philadelphia election official who has told of enduring death threats whipped up by Donald Trump for defending the city’s 2020 vote-counting against the former president’s lies will be nominated for the top election administration post in Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro’s administration. The Democrat’s campaign said Thursday that Al Schmidt will be nominated to be Shapiro’s secretary of state…

1 year ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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CBS News

Josh Shapiro to nominate Republican Al Schmidt as secretary of state

Al Schmidt will be nominated to be Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro's secretary of state, the campaign said Thursday, setting him up to oversee what is expected to be a hard-fought 2024 election in the critical presidential battleground.

1 year ago

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Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Shapiro taps Republican targeted by Trump for top state elections job

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Democrat Josh Shapiro, the incoming Pennsylvania governor, announced Thursday that he has selected Republican Al Schmidt, a leading opponent of former President Donald Trump‘s efforts to disrupt the counting of votes in 2020, to become secretary of the commonwealth, the state’s top elections official. Schmidt was the lone Republican on Philadelphia’s

1 year ago·Panama City, United States

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