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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry! Wrong sheet link. Use this: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 12h

returning more ballots so far (red or blue on district name, and whether a party's ballots in a given district are up (green) or down (yellow) compared with 2022. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 12h

10/9/26 update: The sheet is now finally what I envisioned it would be! You can see approved mail ballots broken down by county/house/senate/congress, compared with 2024 and 2022, and you can see the return rates for those years. I've also color coded it to show which party is

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

10/8/26 update. The sheet now has return rates for all counties, state house districts, state senate districts, and congressional districts, compared with those dates in 2024 and 2022. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

sign up for our newsletter (going out tomorrow) for a full recap and fact check of the candidate’s statements on elections. www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania...

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Votebeat

Get the latest news on election administration and voting access in Pennsylvania, plus more essential local voting news to keep you up to speed on what matters.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

secure, and began to respond about there sometimes being issues as have happened in Luzerne and the southeast (Chester?), then pivoted to saying she supported voter ID. Check out this story for a full breakdown of their records on election issues, and www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania...

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Pennsylvania’s next governor could change the way elections are run in a key swing state

Josh Shapiro and Stacy Garrity have taken very different stances on new election laws, Trump, and the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

At tonight’s ABC 27 Pennsylvania governor’s debate, @governor.pa.gov was asked if he supports implementing stronger voter ID requirements and responded that he was open to such a bill provided it is not disenfranchising. Stacey Garrity was asked if she felt Pennsylvania’s elections are not

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

10/7/26 update. The sheet now has comparative returns data statewide. Democrats showing a little more enthusiasm for returning their ballots. Still working out the kinks for the county/district comparisons, so those will be added soon. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Catching up from a day off, so find 10/2, 10/5 and 10/6 here now. Check back tomorrow when I'll start having returns comparisons! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

10/1/26 update docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last update of September! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

9/29/26 update docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: The Pennsylvania State House has passed a bill to open the state's primary elections to unaffiliated voters. The vote was bipartisan at 115 to 88. More to come.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

9/28/26 update docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

9/25/26 update. PA has officially passed 1,000,000 ballots requested and approved for the 2026 election docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

9/24/26 update docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ballots are starting to arrive in mailboxes around the state. I put together this spreadsheet comparing 2026 with 2022 and 2024 — broken down by party, county, state House, state Senate, and congressional districts — which I'll be updating M-F between now and Nov. 3. Link and thread below:

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

News: The PA Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision to keep Andrew Tupone, the Green Party candidate running in PA’s 7th congressional district, off the ballot.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

received does not address that discrepancy.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When DHS first told PA about the potential non-citizen registered voters in July, it said that Social Security numbers had been used in some of the matches. But the Sept. 9 email said that DHS had not used “federal enumerators” like SSN. I asked DHS about this today, and the response I just

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My wife is making me watch Dancing with the Stars. They just explained the voting for this season and there are two candidates with the name Connor, so you have to also text the first letter of the last name to vote. My first thought: “There are going to be so many lost votes.”

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Votebeat @votebeat.org · 15/09/2026

In an hour! ⬇️

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is National Voter Registration Day. If you live in Pennsylvania, the deadline to register to voter for the midterms is Oct. 19. www.pa.gov/agencies/vot...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Are you a reporter? Are you covering elections in PA? Do you want to fact check election claims using cold hard data like a pro? Join @wereschagin.bsky.social and I Monday for a panel on Data Journalism in Election Integrity from the PNA and we’ll show you the ropes panewsmedia.org?utm_source=v...

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m here in Philly where the Pennsylvania State House is holding a special legislative session in Congress Hall as part of a 250th anniversary celebration.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Department of Justice says it has charged two noncitizens in Pennsylvania, along with two in other states, with voting illegally. The two in Pennsylvania allegedly voted in 2024. A third PA resident, a U.S. Citizen, was also charged. More details to come.

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Votebeat @votebeat.org · 03/09/2026

A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.

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Inside an academic model used to question Trump’s win in the 2024 election

A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In academia, a working paper is provisional. Online and in court, Walter Mebane’s working paper turned into evidence that the 2024 election might be flawed. Our story is about what got lost in translation. With @jessicahuseman.bsky.social www.votebeat.org/national/202...

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Inside an academic model used to question Trump’s win in the 2024 election

A statistical model claims there were enough fraudulent votes in 2024 to cast doubt on Trump’s win in Pennsylvania. Experts say the model is fundamentally flawed.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

First, sign up for our experts desk. This FREE resource will connect you with election-oriented subject matter experts who can answer your questions on-the-record. Sign up here: t.co/bEL4u3OYei

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@votebeat.org is determined not just to cover elections with clarity and accuracy, but to help other reporters do so as well. And we have a plethora of resources/events coming up in the next few weeks to help you do that:

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

challenger, has been dogged by questions about her statements doubting the legitimacy of the 2020 election, but she hasn’t given much indication of what policies she would pursue or how she would approach elections issues if elected, other than saying she would work with the Trump

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New from Votebeat PA: How would the two candidates running for governor handle election issues? Josh Shapiro has delivered on some of his 2022 campaign promises, but not all, leaving much he may still try to accomplish in a second term (if legislative winds shift). Stacy Garrity, his Republican

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Pennsylvania’s next governor could change the way elections are run in a key swing state

Josh Shapiro and Stacy Garrity have taken very different stances on new election laws, Trump, and the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Scott Presler pushed hard for Pennsylvanians to vote no on retaining three Supreme Court judges last year. But did he violate state campaign finance law in the process? New story from Votebeat PA. www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania...

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New complaint alleges a conservative election activist violated campaign finance law

Pennsylvania activist Scott Presler didn’t disclose his spending in Pennsylvania’s 2025 judicial retention races, the complaint says.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

noncitizens, and asked for more information on the department’s methodology before moving forward.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

BREAKING: In a response to the Department of Homeland Security’s allegation that there are thousands of noncitizens on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls, Al Schmidt says DHS has NOT said how it identified those noncitizens. He also pointed out flaws in a DHS program used to identify

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I'll be on @cnn.com with @dannyefreeman.bsky.social in a few minutes to discuss the noncitizen voter registration error in New Jersey and the parallels with Pennsylvania's own instance of this from a decade ago.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New: Here is the letter DHS Secretary Mullin sent to Pennsylvania yesterday. It says they used SSN, however the state did not provide that to DHS, so I imagine they used some other method to match that number to the information on the public voter file.

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Statement from Pennsylvania Secretary Al Schmidt on Trump/DHS noncitizen voter allegations:

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Carter Walker @bycarterwalker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

President Trump will address the nation tonight at 9 p.m. in a speech about election security. I will be on WITF with Franklin & Marshall professor Berwood Yost and attorney Terry Mutchler for live analysis when the speech ends. Tune in here www.witf.org/stream/

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