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Voters heading to the polls this primary election will be faced not only with candidate choices but with four ballot questions.
Three of the questions potentially amend the state constitution, two of which determine the future of Disaster Declarations. The other considers denial of equal rights based on race or ethnicity.
The fourth ballot question is a budget referendum regarding funding for paid municipal fire departments and EMS companies.
Lycoming County Democratic Committee Chair Linda Sosniak and state Rep. Jeff Wheeland, R-Loyalsock Township, recently spoke to the referendums.
The first referendum reads: “Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to change existing law and increase the power of the General Assembly to unilaterally terminate or extend a disaster emergency declaration–and the powers of Commonwealth agencies to address the disaster regardless of its severity pursuant to that declaration–through passing a concurrent resoluti
May 8, 2021
HARRISBURG (AP) Republicans wanting stricter voter identification provisions in Pennsylvania is emerging as an early flashpoint with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in what GOP lawmakers cast as a top-to-bottom update of state election law following a presidential contest that Donald Trump still baselessly maintains was stolen from him.
Wolf’s chief of staff, Mike Brunelle, said the House Republican in charge of writing election legislation called him to discuss the matter, but it was a short conversation.
Wolf is ready to discuss legislation to update the state’s election law, but opposes changes to the voter ID law, Brunelle told The Associated Press.
May 8, 2021
HARRISBURG (AP) Republicans wanting stricter voter identification provisions in Pennsylvania is emerging as an early flashpoint with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in what GOP lawmakers cast as a top-to-bottom update of state election law following a presidential contest that Donald Trump still baselessly maintains was stolen from him.
Wolf’s chief of staff, Mike Brunelle, said the House Republican in charge of writing election legislation called him to discuss the matter, but it was a short conversation.
Wolf is ready to discuss legislation to update the state’s election law, but opposes changes to the voter ID law, Brunelle told The Associated Press.
Republicans are pushing new voter ID requirements in Pa. and N.J.
Updated May 08, 2021;
Posted May 08, 2021
An elections inspector looks at a voter s ID card on Election Day, Nov. 6, 2012, in Harrisburg.Pennlive.com file photo
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Republicans wanting stricter voter identification provisions in Pennsylvania is emerging as an early flashpoint with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in what GOP lawmakers cast as a top-to-bottom update of state election law following a presidential contest that former President Donald Trump still baselessly maintains was stolen from him.
Wolf’s chief of staff, Mike Brunelle, said the House Republican in charge of writing election legislation called him to discuss the matter, but it was a short conversation.