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The head of a national non-partisan organization focused on research and education about voting by mail will become the next person to run Pennsylvania’s Department of State. Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday announced Leigh M. Chapman, who currently serves as executive director of Deliver My Vote, will move into the spot on Jan. 8 that is now held by Acting Secretary Veronica Degraffenreid. Degraffenreid will become a special advisor to the governor. Chapman has some familiarity with the department, having worked as its policy director from 2015 to 2017 overseeing the implementation of electronic voter registration. She will serve the...

Gov. Tom Wolf has nominated Veronica Degraffenreid, the former North Carolina director of election operations, to serve as his next secretary of the Department of State. Degraffenreid has been serving in that role for the department in an acting capacity since the abrupt Feb. 5 departure of Kathy Boockvar. Her nomination will be presented to the Senate for confirmation, which has 25 legislative days to act on it. “I am honored to be nominated to serve as secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Degraffenreid said. “In my time with the Department of State, I have had the privilege of working...