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  • Voting machines rarely malfunction during Pa. elections, new data show

    08/04/2025 5:12:19 AM PDT · by lightman · 31 replies
    Pennlive ^ | 4 August A.D. 2025 | Careter Walker
    An analysis of three recent statewide elections found that problems with voting machines were rare and easily fixed. This article is made possible through Spotlight PA’s collaboration with Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting. Sign up for Votebeat’s free newsletters here. Pennsylvania voters encountered only scattered voting-machine malfunctions that rarely affected their ability to cast ballots in recent elections, according to a Votebeat and Spotlight PA analysis of problems reported to the state. Counties reported a smattering of common problems with machines at polling places, such as paper jams and error messages. Such issues were...
  • After receiving police report, Pa. prosecutor waited months to charge a man who shot at protesters

    05/07/2021 5:27:53 PM PDT · by lightman · 10 replies
    Pennlive ^ | 7 May A.D. 2021 | Joseph Darius Jaafari & Davud Hurst
    BEDFORD — The district attorney in Bedford County has brought dozens of charges against a man for firing a 12-gauge shotgun at civil rights marchers last August, striking one in the face and endangering 19 others. The announcement from Lesley Childers-Potts came just days after Spotlight PA and The Tribune-Democrat learned the prosecutor had been given the results of a State Police investigation into the shooting in early March — and just one day after the news organizations asked why she hadn’t acted on it. Terry Myers, 51 of Schellsburg, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a...