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Let’s all vote, then wait for the recounts

It’s time to vote.It’s also time to claim there’s voter fraud everywhere.Lots of Republicans are ready to pounce on election officials from coast-to-coast.They’ll see victory where it isn’t – thanks to Donald Trump.According to FiveThirtyEight.com, of the nation’s 552 Republican ...

Mail votes rush in, but some don’t count

Early votes are rolling in to election offices, with Democratic voters making up a solid majority of mailed-in ballots.A court ruling, however, could leave some of those ballots uncounted.As of Thursday, nearly a million Pennsylvanians had already voted ahead of the Tuesday election – taking ...

The dark cloud of political violence

In the early Obama years, I covered Tea Party rallies for my newspaper at the time, the Tribune-Review. The rallies at an abandoned air strip in Westmoreland County were a brew of the utterly mundane and the entirely outrageous.The featured speakers, like former Pennsylvania senator Rich ...

We shouldn’t take the right to vote for granted

Susan B. Anthony once said, “Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.”Anthony fought for the right of women to vote in the 19th century, and didn’t live long enough to see that right guaranteed across the United States in 1920. The expansion of voting rights across two-and-a-half ...

Cheers & Jeers

<strong>Cheers:</strong> The recent passage of a bill aimed at protecting those who drive on the Pennsylvania Turnpike should bring drivers a bit of relief. Passed by the state House and state Senate, the bill forces the state’s Turnpike Commission to notify ...