Carter Walker
@ByCarterWalker
Pennsylvania voting/elections reporter for @VotebeatUS, in partnership w/ @SpotlightPA. Previously investigations @lancasteronline. Tips: [email protected]
"If you don't have a free press, you don't have human rights" - wise words from a journalist who helped break the Panama Papers
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Analysis from @JessicaHuseman: "If parties want to win elections, they have to stop telling voters the system is rigged every time they lose. Because when you chip away at people’s trust in democracy, you’re chipping away at your own turnout, too." votebeat.org/2025/07/14/roc…
Secretary of the Commonwealth complains about "confusing and contradictory" Election Code in 1937.
Nothing puts the present into perspective like reading old newspaper articles on state government. I swear we've been fighting on the same three issues for the past two centuries!
🧵NEW: WEC appointees yesterday questioned why the former Madison clerk was absent as 193 ballots were missing. Records obtained by Votebeat show she was having a baking "staycation" amid the snafu, and when she returned to work she had staff deliver cookies around the city
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NEW @VotebeatUS Add Pennsylvania to the states getting questions from DOJ about how it manages its voter rolls. h/t @ByCarterWalker
Support for early voting, voter ID grows among Pennsylvanians who participated in bipartisan discussions votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2…
The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, which often acts as the consensus voice for what election reforms counties need, has a new director.
CCAP Names Kyle Kopko New Executive Director pacounties.org/home/slider-ne…
BRB headed to Boston to cover this election: tiktok.com/@nbc10boston/v…
As lawmakers miss their deadline today to pass a balanced state budget by the start of the next fiscal year, when will average Pennsylvanians start feeling an impact? inquirer.com/politics/penns…
Supreme Court to rehear case over Louisiana’s second majority-Black district wapo.st/4npwa6T