Carter Walker
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Pennsylvania voting/elections reporter for @VotebeatUS, in partnership w/ @SpotlightPA. Previously investigations @lancasteronline. Tips: [email protected]
Buried in legal filings, PA
Joined September 2015
"If you don't have a free press, you don't have human rights" - wise words from a journalist who helped break the Panama Papers
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Johnny Doc played a pivotal role electing his brother to the Pa. Supreme Court in 2015. Ten years later, things sure are different now. And the connection is unavoidable. Story w/ @KatieJ_Bernard
https://t.co/kvr2QyJWzI
inquirer.com
Kevin Dougherty benefited from Local 98's help during his 2015 campaign. This year, labor is still spending big on the justice's retention.
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A perpetual conflation that spans the states.
There's a constant conflation between voting machines, like ExpressVote, that you can use to cast a ballot, and tabulators used to count votes cast on those machines and hand-filled paper ballots. If you're going to promote conspiracy theories, please at least knows this.
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Five years after trying to aid Trump, Pennsylvania’s Fulton County faces steep penalty, from @ByCarterWalker
votebeat.org
Under pressure from Trump allies, the county agreed to let an outside company examine its voting machines, prompting the state to decertify them.
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NEWS: The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has DENIED a request from Republicans to rehear a first amendment case on dating mail ballot envelopes. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is likely next. Background story in next post.
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Supreme Court once again eyes overturning key part of Voting Rights Act — w/ @jjouvenal
washingtonpost.com
The Supreme Court is considering a Louisiana redistricting case that could determine whether states are required to draw majority Black and Latino districts.
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Twelve PA counties use Dominion equipment, five of which also use the KNOWiNK e-poll books. Another seven counties use the KNOWiNK e-poll books (but not Dominion equipment).
Big scoop from @axiosalex: Dominion Voting sold by private equity firm to company run by ex-GOP election official https://t.co/5OgPKE2NF5
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Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official
axios.com
Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.
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New Franklin & Marshall Poll for the three Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices up for Retention. All three are Democrats and the court is currently a 5-2 Democratic majority https://t.co/IMj2nmclJ0
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EXCLUSIVE: After the news Monday about Luzerne County sending out duplicate mail ballots, I checked the state's data and found a handful of other potentially duplicate ballots across the state. The state/counties confirmed. Story in next post.
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Interesting look at how, despite the huge amount of attention it is getting at the state level, the retention elections are just not clicking for voters and even campaigners on the ground.
In Pennsylvania next month, three Democratic justices are up for retention—Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht—meaning voters will decide, in a simple yes-or-no vote, whether or not to keep them on the bench. https://t.co/MDJtCgiHsH
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"For this November’s election, about 12,000 more Republican voters have requested mail ballots than did for the last municipal election in 2023, and there are still more than three weeks left to request a ballot." via @ByCarterWalker
https://t.co/AuxrpUsHDb
spotlightpa.org
In Pennsylvania, Republicans who once attacked mail voting now urge it as they fight to unseat state Supreme Court justices in November.
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Right wing influencer Jack Posobiec, who oft tries to invalidate Pennsylvania election results with faulty claims of fraud, continuers to vote from his parents home in suburban Philly despite appearing to have lived in Maryland for years. https://t.co/8ul2a8NbwE
slate.com
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
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This includes the case in Pennsylvania
The government is now also asking to halt several of its recently filed lawsuits against states over their refusal to turn over voter registration data.
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Justice Kevin Brobson's dissent is interesting to anyone whose followed the twists and turns of mail ballots in PA. He effectively argues that the court is now rejecting logic it accepted in 2020 by requiring notice and cure absent statutory language. https://t.co/eDRVjYMQLh
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In a 4-3 decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that county election officials must notify voters if they are going to reject their ballot over a mistake (such as a missing signature or incorrect date) on their mail ballots. Via @ByCarterWalker
spotlightpa.org
Voters across PA will have at least some rights to be notified and have some recourse if their mail ballots are at risk of being rejected because of mistakes.
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FWIW one election official I know thinks this ruling doesn't help the chance of further election law reform, because Republicans will view it as a sign that the deals they strike may eventually be altered by the courts.
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Counties must notify voters if their mail ballot was rejected, Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules
votebeat.org
In Washington County, officials chose not to notify voters that their ballots were being rejected. In a victory for voting rights groups, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against that policy.
The PA Supreme Court ruled yesterday that counties must notify voters if they plan to set mail-in voters’ ballots aside due to envelope errors. With a previous ruling on provisional ballots, this now means “notice and cure” effectively exists in some version in all 67 counties.
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The PA Supreme Court ruled yesterday that counties must notify voters if they plan to set mail-in voters’ ballots aside due to envelope errors. With a previous ruling on provisional ballots, this now means “notice and cure” effectively exists in some version in all 67 counties.
Ctr. Coalfield Justice v. Wash., Apl. of: RNC/RPP - No. 28 WAP 2024 MO; https://t.co/mAmfBrBbR0 DO; https://t.co/MfGWxBLrP4 DO2;
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