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Democrats and Republicans will choose their parties’ candidates for a vacancy on Commonwealth Court and on Superior Court. The winners will compete in the November general election.

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Join us May 6 for a live event to discuss the effort to open PA’s primaries and how it would affect elections.

An 'open primary' system could allow more voters to cast ballots. But that would require a change to Pennsylvania's election laws.

As the number of independent voters grows, there is broad bipartisan support among Pennsylvania voters for allowing the state’s 1.4 million independents to participate in primary elections, says a new poll.

Voting is about to begin in Berks County. Election officials said the first batch of about 16,000 mail ballots are being sent to voters who requested them and should begin arriving in mailboxes this week.

Another Section 2 case dropped by the Trump Administration. The Standard Speaker reports: The U.S. Justice Department dropped a lawsuit Monday to stop the City of Hazleton from electing council members at-large,