Carter Walker

Carter Walker

Reporter, Votebeat Pennsylvania

Carter was previously a reporter at the LNP in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he covered political extremism, including election misinformation, for the past year. He is originally from Chester County, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Penn State with a journalism degree. After working at the Times West Virginian, he returned to Pennsylvania to cover government and politics with a focus on investigative work.

The Commonwealth Court ruling says Butler County voters whose mail ballots were rejected were entitled to have their provisional ballots counted.

Disenfranchising citizens over ‘inconsequential paperwork errors’ violates voting rights, a state court says. The GOP will appeal.

Disputes involve provisional ballots, ‘notice and cure’ procedures, and the date requirement.

After ‘activist rulemaking’ in Georgia, experts are still confident officials can thwart local efforts to interfere with finalizing presidential results.

Guidance and directives are a regular part of election administration in Pennsylvania, and will be again in 2024.

The ACLU and the Department of State say election officials don’t use the handwritten dates on ballot envelopes for anything. GOP lawyers say they could be a tool against fraud.

Justice Department officials mishandled information about the 2020 incident in Luzerne County, Pa., the agency’s internal watchdog says.

The directive seeks to cut down on ballot rejections and resolve inconsistencies in county policies.