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You know what “permanent” means, right? According to definition experts at Merriam-
Webster, it means “in a way that continues without changing or ending; in a way that is not brief or temporary.”
In other words, if you take a step that you call permanent, it’s something you expect to continue like inertia until it is acted upon by another force.
So why didn’t the Pennsylvania legislature mean it when they used the word for 2019 voting changes?
The new law the Republican-backed and Wolf-signed Act 77 legislation that allowed expanded mail-in voting in 2020 created something else. A permanent mail-in ballot list.