Daily News | The winners of this year’s local races will run Pa.’s 2024 election, and the stakes are high
This year’s local races will determine how Pennsylvania runs its 2024 presidential elections.
More than a dozen Pennsylvania elections officials interviewed by The Inquirer said the changing role of local elections boards in recent years — including becoming more high-profile and politicized — has created new risks. Some warned of rising electoral danger in their own and neighboring counties, including election deniers running for office.
The board of elections needs to be willing to both directly support the elections office and also insulate it from any political pressure or interference, Hall said. “If you don’t have those people, it becomes really problematic.”The actual work of running elections is handled by each county’s full-time elections office: non-elected county staffers who are hired specifically to run elections.
State law requires certification within 20 days of Election Day. By then, the winners have generally long been known, and certification was uncomplicated and uncontroversial in the past. A single county, then, on the votes of two of the three county commissioners, can refuse to certify its election results or certify them in a way inconsistent with the rest of the state. Until a court forces them to act, they can hold up the entire state’s results for weeks or even months.
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