GOP Leaders in Pennsylvania Embrace Mail-In Voting, Drop Boxes

Voting has changed in the United States, and the Pennsylvania Republican Party wants voters to change with it by becoming mail-in voters. Elections used to happen on a single day, and only a minority of people voted by absentee ballot. They were mostly military voters stationed out of the country, and people who were traveling, sick, or otherwise had a reason for not going to the local polls on election day. Years before COVID-19 came on the scene, Democrats in Pennsylvania talked about expanding absentee voting as we knew it to “no-excuse absentee voting,” where anyone could participate in mail-in voting—no reason needed. In October 2019, the Pennsylvania Legislature passed Act 77, a controversial package of changes to election law that ushered in no-excuse absentee voting....