Pennsylvania’s top election official wants a judge to toss out a lawsuit by the federal government demanding “highly sensitive personal information” about the state’s voters. The U.S. Department of Justice sued Pennsylvania in September after the state initially failed to turn over data about its nearly 9 million registered voters.

Other pro-retention spending was done by Pennsylvanians for Judicial Fairness, a state-level super PAC. It has poured money from unions, trial lawyers, billionaires, national super PACs, and dark money nonprofits into the commonwealth’s statewide judicial races since 2023.

The use of provisional ballots has risen in recent elections, as has the number of ballots rejected because of issues with the outer envelope.

The state’s 22nd District (Lehigh County) and 42nd District (Allegheny County) were left vacant after the November election. Both representatives serving the districts were elected to other offices: Rep. Joshua Siegel (D) will be Lehigh County’s next county executive, and Rep. Dan Miller (D) will now sit on the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.

A lawsuit by independent voters including commentator Michael Smerconish is seeking to end Pennsylvania’s closed primary election system, which prohibits them from participating.

The Pennsylvania Department of State has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice, which seeks highly sensitive voter information like driver’s license numbers and last four digits of Social Security numbers.