Pennsylvania Courts Deal Blows to Progressives on Election Review and Redistricting
January 12, 2022 | Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s commonwealth court green-lighted the state Senate Republicans’ election probe this week; the state Supreme Court has meanwhile declined to take up the remapping of congressional districts.
As a result of the commonwealth court’s ruling, the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee may proceed with its subpoenas of voter records. The Supreme Court’s decision means Gov. Tom Wolf (D) will likely have to work out a compromise with the Republican state legislature on congressional reapportionment.
Both rulings are political blows to Democrats.
In deciding the election-review case, the lower court rejected a petition by the state Senate Democratic leadership and former Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid (D) to quash subpoenas Senate Republicans have issued to obtain voter records. The information requested for the probe of 2020 and 2021 elections includes the state-issued ID numbers and partial Social Security numbers of all 9 million registered voters in Pennsylvania…. (Excerpts from the Pennsylvania Daily Star)
