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Sep 9, 2024 | 
armchairlehighvalley.substack.com | Robert Orenstein
If you forget to put a date on your mail-in ballot envelope, as required by law, will your vote count? That’s what the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will decide as it considers an appeal from a lower court that said ballot envelopes without a date or the wrong date should be counted.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
mcall.com | Katherine Reinhard |Robert Orenstein
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared on Armchair Lehigh Valley and is being published on themorningcall.com as part of a partnership with the website, which aims to give voters factual information in a nonpartisan way to help them make informed decisions at the polls. Armchair Lehigh Valley is run by Publisher Katherine Reinhard and editor Robert H. Orenstein, two former Morning Call employees. Learn more about Armchair Lehigh Valley and subscribe here.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
armchairlehighvalley.substack.com | Robert Orenstein
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
mcall.com | Robert Orenstein
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared on Armchair Lehigh Valley and is being published on themorningcall.com as part of a partnership with the website, which aims to give voters factual information in a nonpartisan way to help them make informed decisions at the polls. Armchair Lehigh Valley is run by Publisher Katherine Reinhard and editor Robert H. Orenstein, two former Morning Call employees. Learn more about Armchair Lehigh Valley and subscribe here.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
mcall.com | Robert Orenstein |Katherine Reinhard |Angel Ackerman
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared on Armchair Lehigh Valley and is being published on themorningcall.com as part of a partnership with the website, which aims to give voters factual information in a nonpartisan way to help them make informed decisions at the polls. Armchair Lehigh Valley is run by Publisher Katherine Reinhard and editor Robert H. Orenstein, two former Morning Call employees. Learn more about Armchair Lehigh Valley and subscribe here. Last week, state Sen.
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
mcall.com | Robert Orenstein
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared on Armchair Lehigh Valley and is being published on themorningcall.com as part of a partnership with the website, which aims to give voters factual information in a nonpartisan way to help them make informed decisions at the polls. Armchair Lehigh Valley is run by Publisher Katherine Reinhard and editor Robert H. Orenstein, two former Morning Call employees. Learn more about Armchair Lehigh Valley and subscribe here.
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
mcall.com | Robert Orenstein
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared on Armchair Lehigh Valley and is being published on themorningcall.com as part of a partnership with the website, which aims to give voters factual information in a nonpartisan way to help them make informed decisions at the polls. Armchair Lehigh Valley is run by Publisher Katherine Reinhard and editor Robert H. Orenstein, two former Morning Call employees. Learn more about Armchair Lehigh Valley and subscribe here.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
mcall.com | Robert Orenstein
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared on Armchair Lehigh Valley and is being published on themorningcall.com as part of a partnership with the website, which aims to give voters factual information in a nonpartisan way to help them make informed decisions at the polls. Armchair Lehigh Valley is run by Publisher Katherine Reinhard and editor Robert H. Orenstein, two former Morning Call employees. Learn more about Armchair Lehigh Valley and subscribe here.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
armchairlehighvalley.substack.com | Robert Orenstein
In Lehigh County, where Republican District Attorney Jim Martin declined to seek reelection after 25 years in office, his handpicked successor has a clear path in this year’s election to replace him. Gavin Holihan, a Republican who earlier this year was named first assistant DA, has no opposition in the May 16 primary; no Democrat is running in that party’s primary either. Contrast that with the district attorney race in Northampton County.
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Feb 13, 2023 | 
armchairlehighvalley.substack.com | Robert Orenstein
A week before Election Day last year, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ordered counties to refrain from counting mail-in ballots that lacked a voter’s proper handwritten date as required by state law. The court, in its two-page order, gave no reason for the decision but indicated it would eventually issue an opinion that explained why. Well, the court did just that three months later – on Feb. 8. The majority opinion by Justice David Wecht clearly reaffirmed the court’s Nov.
