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As Election Day looms, the number of false and misleading claims are ratcheting up.

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie has this explainer on two common topics of confusion — dead or noncitizen voters.

This story is part of an explanatory series focused on Pennsylvania elections produced collaboratively by WITF's democracy reporter Jordan Wilkie and The Associated Press.

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Central Pennsylvania democrats are feeling energized Vice President Kamala Harris visited Harrisburg with six days left before the election. 

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Pennsylvania has pulled in more than $5.5 billion in federal money meant to help address climate change.

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt reports the impact of the funding is starting to show up in Pa. communities. 

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Federal climate money is helping Pennsylvania communities transform their downtowns.

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt reports it’s part of more than $5.5 billion that have been awarded to hundreds of projects across the state. 

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Having a plan can help voters avoid long lines, prevent mistakes and help fellow citizens.

WITF’s Katie Knol has this advice on making your Election Day — November 5th — run smoothly.

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Pennsylvanians are running out of time to vote by mail.

WITF’s Katie Knol reports there are multiple ways to get and return a mail-in ballot and make sure your votes are counted.

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The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant is laying out a timeline for re-opening.

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Rachel McDevitt reports the company wants to start generating electricity again in 2028.

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The Lancaster County District Attorney’s office is investigating voter registration fraud after it was alerted to numerous suspicious registration forms by the county’s elections office. 

WITF’s Jeremy Long reports the forms were found in batches of last-minute submissions linked to canvassing largely focused on the city of Lancaster.

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Pennsylvanians can vote by mail or vote in person at a polling place on Election Day.
The state doesn’t have early in-person voting, but there is a work around.

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie recorded himself requesting and returning a by-mail ballot, all in person and same day, at his county elections office.

Election officials say more people than ever before are voting same-day mail in ballots. Since election offices don’t have dedicated staff for this method, having lots of people show up all at once puts added strain on already thinly stretched staff and can backlog other important work. 

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided the first of three state election cases focused on mail-in voting.

WITF’s Jordan Wilkie reports counties now have to allow people to cast provisional ballots if they made mistakes voting by mail. 

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