FILE PHOTO: A voter hands his absentee ballot to a Miami-Dade County elections official.
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Pennsylvania may tweak new law to avoid vote-counting logjam
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FILE PHOTO: A voter hands his absentee ballot to a Miami-Dade County elections official.
(Harrisburg) — A top Pennsylvania lawmaker says the Legislature may change Pennsylvania’s sweeping 4-month-old election law in an effort to avoid a logjam of mail-in ballots that could extend vote-counting in the presidential race for days afterward.
Republican House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler says the law may be changed to let county election officials open envelopes that contain mail-in ballots before the polls close at 8 p.m.
The new voting law lets any voter mail in a ballot for any reason, where the state had previously restricted mail-in ballots to “absentee” voters who met a narrow set of reasons.
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