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Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground

Sussex County criminal defense attorney Julianne Murray (Murray for Delaware) and Delaware Gov. John Carney (Office of Gov. John Carney)
Politics & Policy

Carney’s GOP challenger says Delaware COVID-19 shutdown based on fear

Republican Julianne Murray said Delaware needs to step back from coronavirus fear in her challenge to incumbent Gov. John Carney.

5 years ago

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Katie O’Regan sits for a portrait outside her home in Lititz, Lancaster County. O’Regan decided to vote in person after running into a problem with her mail-in ballot application. She says official-looking mail from outside groups is confusing voters. (Kate Landis/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Ballot applications from outside groups confuse some voters as deadline looms

While some of those groups have checked with the state to ensure accuracy of their mail-in applications, others have not, and it is not required that they do so.

5 years ago

A sign outside a polling location in Philadelphia in 2016.
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

Election Day off work? Not at most big Philly companies

Some employers are closing early, offering extra PTO hours, or banning meetings on Nov. 3.

5 years ago

Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks at the University of Akron as NBA star LeBron James listens
Politics & Policy

Michelle Obama, LeBron James team to help boost early voting

Obama's When We All Vote and James' More Than A Vote are teaming to provide transportation, food, music, PPE and other support at at early voting sites around the country.

5 years ago

Sara Gideon, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at a
Politics & Policy

Senate Democrats’ fundraising success puts GOP on defensive

Democratic Senate candidates are mounting a push in Republican states that few would have thought possible just a few months ago.

5 years ago

Poll worker Chuck Kellander interacts with voters through a plexiglass screen at Belmont Hill Elementary School in Bensalem, Bucks County. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy
Broke in Philly

Want to be a poll worker? Philly says it’s responding to ‘unprecedented’ number of applicants

If you applied to be a Philly poll worker and haven’t gotten a response, the city says it’s busy working through an “unprecedented” number of applications.

5 years ago

Briheem Douglas, a union maintenance worker at Lincoln Financial Field, knocks on doors in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood to encourage people to make a plan to vote as soon as possible. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Hospitality workers canvass for Biden, hoping to boost Black and Latino vote in Philly

The union has launched door-knocking efforts in Pa., Nevada, Arizona and Florida, battleground states where they have large numbers.

5 years ago

President Trump participates in the first presidential debate
Politics & Policy

Resuming campaign travel, Trump to return to Pennsylvania

Trump was resuming campaign travel Monday after he was hospitalized and then quarantined at the White House following his positive test.

5 years ago

Free Library of Philadelphia
Politics & Policy

Pa. libraries launch ‘Hear Me Out’ to heal the state through civic dialogue

An effort to foster dialogues between people in different parts of Pennsylvania attempts to find common ground in a divided state.

5 years ago

The Pennsylvania state Capitol
Politics & Policy

Here’s how Democrats could flip the Pennsylvania legislature

Democrats have been slowly chipping away at the majorities Republicans hold in the Pennsylvania House and Senate, but still need to flip 13 seats to seize control.

5 years ago

Vote-by-mail ballots are shown in sorting trays
Politics & Policy

Delaware judge refuses to order state to count late ballots

Officials began sending mail-in ballots to those who requested them this week and will continue to do so as late as four days before the election.

5 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvanians to pick 3 statewide row office holders Nov. 3

Voters next month will decide who should be Pennsylvania’s attorney general, state treasurer and auditor general.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House to a crowd of supporters, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in Washington.
Politics & Policy

Doctor says Trump won’t transmit coronavirus, but offers limited details

Some medical experts had been skeptical that Trump could be declared free of the risk of transmitting the virus so early in the course of his illness.

5 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Plumbers Local Union No. 27 training center,
Politics & Policy

Biden hits Trump on economy in critical Pennsylvania county

Nowhere could Biden’s arguments prove more decisive than in Erie County. It was among the most populous blue counties in the nation to flip to red in 2016.

5 years ago

A mail ballot is positioned in a mailbox
Politics & Policy

N.J. polls will be open for Election Day, but there are easier ways to cast your vote

Although it is called a mail-in ballot, there are several ways to submit your vote without sending it through the U.S Postal Service.

5 years ago

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