Bills to ban drop boxes for depositing mail-in and absentee ballots as well as donations to run elections from outside groups are advancing in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Drop boxes for depositing mail-in and absentee ballots would be banned and donations to run elections would no longer be permitted from groups outside government under bills approved Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Senate.grants issued during the 2020 election
"Drop boxes are breeding grounds for suspicious activity," said Sen. Ryan Aument, R-Lancaster. "They were never authorized by this legislative body but were instead created by the courts." "It worked in 2020 in one of the most heavy turnout elections in the history of the United States and in the history of Pennsylvania," Santarsiero said. "So this is a bill, as we’ve seen from time to time in this General Assembly, that seeks to solve a problem that doesn’t exist."he lost unfairly, and by evidence that the unmonitored receptacles were sometimes used to deposit more ballots that just the voter's own.
Sen. Sharif Street, D-Philadelphia, called it "an attempt to eliminate access to voting by creating lines, by creating barriers to entry, barriers to access, and it would have a disproportionate impact on counties with larger population."
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