Why Pennsylvania’s unusual voting laws make it ripe for rigged election claims

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Publish Date:

November 2, 2024

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Jane, Timm

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NBC News

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“The Pennsylvania legislature had multiple opportunities to clarify and improve the state’s election law,” said Nate Persily, an NBC News election law expert and professor at Stanford Law School. “It deliberately chose not to. The gaps in the law provide a vacuum that gets filled with conspiracy theories and require the courts to bring coherence to an incoherent regime.”