New research conducted on Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots

November 6, 2023 | Dennis Owens and George Stockburger | WHTM ABC 27

CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) – More than 700,000 Pennsylvania voters have returned their mail ballots ahead of the state’s municipal general election.

Of the more than one million ballots sent out, nearly three-quarters of them were requested by voters registered as Democrats. Many Republican voters don’t trust mail ballots. …

“Even without any evidence of widespread fraud, there are still misconceptions and at times just outright conspiracy theories about what’s happening across all 67 counties … There isn’t some sort of master scheme that Democrats are put at an advantage by mail in voting”
-Ari Mittleman

Sarah Niebler, who teaches at Dickinson College, recently researched mail-in ballots from the spring primary, specifically, rejection rates by political party. She found that “There’s no partisan difference either at the individual level or at the county level.” …