The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Pennsylvania Voting Rights Protection Act by a vote of 110 to 91. House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff said Pennsylvanians can only have faith in their government if they have faith in the system which creates it. The Pennsylvania Voting Rights Protection Act takes a realistic and holistic approach to overhauling Pennsylvania’s outdated election laws. Its provisions have broad support from Pennsylvanians. State Representative Dan Moul summed it up…
It includes provisions providing for early in-person voting, the formal legal recognition and regulation of drop boxes, unprecedented election modernization provisions, five days of additional pre-canvassing time, enhanced voter identification requirements, the protection of voting rights for handicapped and older Pennsylvanians, and historic amounts of state funding for county election administration. Governor Wolf however, has already threatened to veto it.