Rep. Seth Grove, in speaking at the Pennsylvania Press Club on Monday, said the state's automatic pay raise law would boost rank-and-file lawmakers' pay above $100,000, starting Dec. 1, and that's reason enough to order a pay freeze.
Considering that those elections are for nominating a candidate to represent their political party and Pennsylvania being a swing state, Grove said, “Moving that up I think would be a huge benefit to increase turnout, increase some excitement in a presidential election year.”
County commissioners want lawmakers to change the law to allow earlier processing of mail-in ballots and move up the deadline for mail-in ballots applications. Both changes would give election officials more time to do the work that currently is limited by law. The pre-canvassing of ballots now can’t begin until 7 a.m. on Election Day and voters currently have up until 7 days before the election to request a mail-in ballot.
“So if the governor’s interested in pre-canvassing, you have to have conversations about election integrity and the mail-in voting system and I think you’ll get movement on that,” he said.Twenty-seven states elect the individual who oversees elections but in Pennsylvania governors appoint the secretary of state as they do other Cabinet officers.
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