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Al Schmidt: “Only registered voters can request a mail ballot and their…”

Featuring: Al Schmidt, Republican | Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Secretary Al Schmidt gives election update

Published | Video Starts at 00:57

In 2019, Republican and Democratic state legislators passed and Governor Wolf signed Act 77 to implement no excuse mail in voting in the Commonwealth. It has the same security and safeguard features that absentee ballot voting has always had, including that Only registered voters can request a mail ballot and their identity must be verified before their ballot is counted. This popular election reform has made voting more accessible and the instructions are simple. But since the 2020 election cycle, thousands of mail ballots have not been able to be counted because of errors that voters made while completing their mail ballot. (00:57–01:05)

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Asserts that mail ballots in Pennsylvania can only be requested by registered voters whose identities are verified.

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