{"id":3901,"date":"2022-08-12T21:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2022-08-12T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T01:51:10","slug":"mail-in-voting-is-a-go-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/2022\/08\/12\/mail-in-voting-is-a-go-for-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail-In Voting is a Go! for November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As reported by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightpa.org\/news\/2022\/08\/pa-mail-voting-law-uphelp-state-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpotlightPA<\/a>, the PA Supreme Court has recently upheld our no-excuse mail-in voting law, Act 77.  While additional legal challenges have been raised,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#2B6CB0\"><p>The timeline to resolve the additional legal challenges is unclear, but supporters of the law said <mark class=\"kt-highlight\">Tuesday\u2019s ruling will preserve voters\u2019 options ahead of the critical midterm election.<\/mark><\/p><p>\u201cThis ruling assures that mail-in voting remains in place and Pennsylvanians will be able to cast their ballot legally in person or by mail without any disruption or confusion,\u201d Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat who signed Act 77 into law, said in a statement.<\/p><cite>&#8211; SpotlightPA, Aug 2, 2022<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Rep. Jenn O&#8217;Mara&#8217;s take <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/enews.pahouse.net\/q\/LE7Mjv15HrJE5DPcu9e01NNoNaXX9HqOty_XwhJn6CSRu4rQSS7KFJG4v\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pavoterservices.pa.gov\/OnlineAbsenteeApplication\/\" target=\"_blank\">Request<\/a> your mail-in or absentee ballot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PA Supreme Court has recently upheld our no-excuse mail-in voting law, Act 77, ensuring that voters will have this option in this November&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-act-77","tag-vote-by-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/springfielddems.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}