Carter Walker
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Pennsylvania voting/elections reporter for @VotebeatUS, in partnership w/ @SpotlightPA. Previously investigations @lancasteronline. Tips: cwalker@votebeat.org
A western PA county mistakenly sent 157 duplicate mail ballots to voter, but gave assurances only one will be counted per voter. www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania...
Some Pennsylvania voters received multiple mail ballots
Even though some voters received multiple ballots, the state says only one ballot per person will be counted.
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The Department of Justice continues its noncitizen voter fraud crackdown in Pennsylvania, announcing four new individuals charged this week. They’ve now charged 11 people in the state since September. But how prevalent is voting crime in Pennsylvania? Small 🧵
10/9/26 update: The sheet is now finally what I envisioned it would be! You can see approved mail ballots broken down by county/house/senate/congress, compared with 2024 and 2022, and you can see the return rates for those years. I've also color coded it to show which party is
Carter Walker@bycarterwalker.bsky.social · last mo.Ballots are starting to arrive in mailboxes around the state. I put together this spreadsheet comparing 2026 with 2022 and 2024 — broken down by party, county, state House, state Senate, and congressional districts — which I'll be updating M-F between now and Nov. 3. Link and thread below:
At tonight’s ABC 27 Pennsylvania governor’s debate, @governor.pa.gov was asked if he supports implementing stronger voter ID requirements and responded that he was open to such a bill provided it is not disenfranchising. Stacey Garrity was asked if she felt Pennsylvania’s elections are not
Story: Bill to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in Pennsylvania primaries passes state House www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania...
Bill to boost participation in Pennsylvania primaries passes key milestone
The proposal would allow unaffiliated voters to vote in Pennsylvania primary elections, but it’s unlikely to become law.
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Carter Walker@bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 4w agoBREAKING: The Pennsylvania State House has passed a bill to open the state's primary elections to unaffiliated voters. The vote was bipartisan at 115 to 88. More to come.
BREAKING: The Pennsylvania State House has passed a bill to open the state's primary elections to unaffiliated voters. The vote was bipartisan at 115 to 88. More to come.
Ballots are starting to arrive in mailboxes around the state. I put together this spreadsheet comparing 2026 with 2022 and 2024 — broken down by party, county, state House, state Senate, and congressional districts — which I'll be updating M-F between now and Nov. 3. Link and thread below:
News: The PA Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision to keep Andrew Tupone, the Green Party candidate running in PA’s 7th congressional district, off the ballot.
SCOOP: DHS provides details on how it identified the 14,576 potential non-citizens it claims are on the Pennsylvania’s voter roll. www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania...
How the Trump administration determined there may be 14,576 noncitizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania
The email breaks nearly two months of silence from the Trump administration over how it arrived at the numbers Trump referenced in his July speech on election security.
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My wife is making me watch Dancing with the Stars. They just explained the voting for this season and there are two candidates with the name Connor, so you have to also text the first letter of the last name to vote. My first thought: “There are going to be so many lost votes.”
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Votebeat@votebeat.org · last mo.LAST CHANCE! Attend our free event to hear from Votebeat's experienced election reporters @jessicahuseman.bsky.social, @alexandershur.bsky.social, @hayleyharding.bsky.social, and @sashahupka.bsky.social. They'll explain what to know about mail voting, election security basics, and more.
Today is National Voter Registration Day. If you live in Pennsylvania, the deadline to register to voter for the midterms is Oct. 19. www.pa.gov/agencies/vot...
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I’m here in Philly where the Pennsylvania State House is holding a special legislative session in Congress Hall as part of a 250th anniversary celebration.
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Five Charged in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin with Illegally Voting, Fraudulent Registration in 2022 or 2024 Election
Five individuals living in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin were charged this week related to illegal voting in the 2022 or 2024 election.
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The Department of Justice says it has charged two noncitizens in Pennsylvania, along with two in other states, with voting illegally. The two in Pennsylvania allegedly voted in 2024. A third PA resident, a U.S. Citizen, was also charged. More details to come.
A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.
Inside an academic model used to question Trump’s win in the 2024 election
A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.
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In academia, a working paper is provisional. Online and in court, Walter Mebane’s working paper turned into evidence that the 2024 election might be flawed. Our story is about what got lost in translation. With @jessicahuseman.bsky.social www.votebeat.org/national/202...
Inside an academic model used to question Trump’s win in the 2024 election
A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.
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New from Votebeat PA: How would the two candidates running for governor handle election issues? Josh Shapiro has delivered on some of his 2022 campaign promises, but not all, leaving much he may still try to accomplish in a second term (if legislative winds shift). Stacy Garrity, his Republican
Pennsylvania’s next governor could change the way elections are run in a key swing state
Josh Shapiro and Stacy Garrity have taken very different stances on new election laws, Trump, and the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
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Scott Presler pushed hard for Pennsylvanians to vote no on retaining three Supreme Court judges last year. But did he violate state campaign finance law in the process? New story from Votebeat PA. www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania...
New complaint alleges a conservative election activist violated campaign finance law
Pennsylvania activist Scott Presler didn’t disclose his spending in Pennsylvania’s 2025 judicial retention races, the complaint says.
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Pennsylvania to Trump administration: Show us your math
The Trump administration identified 14,576 potential noncitizen voters in Pennsylvania, but it’s unclear how it arrived at that number.
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Carter Walker@bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 3mo agoBREAKING: In a response to the Department of Homeland Security’s allegation that there are thousands of noncitizens on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls, Al Schmidt says DHS has NOT said how it identified those noncitizens. He also pointed out flaws in a DHS program used to identify
BREAKING: In a response to the Department of Homeland Security’s allegation that there are thousands of noncitizens on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls, Al Schmidt says DHS has NOT said how it identified those noncitizens. He also pointed out flaws in a DHS program used to identify
I'll be on @cnn.com with @dannyefreeman.bsky.social in a few minutes to discuss the noncitizen voter registration error in New Jersey and the parallels with Pennsylvania's own instance of this from a decade ago.
New: Here is the letter DHS Secretary Mullin sent to Pennsylvania yesterday. It says they used SSN, however the state did not provide that to DHS, so I imagine they used some other method to match that number to the information on the public voter file.
Statement from Pennsylvania Secretary Al Schmidt on Trump/DHS noncitizen voter allegations:
