Many state legislators around the country somehow have concluded that cross-dressing is a major issue regarding school governance. But in Pennsylvania, lawmakers should be far more concerned about the ...

Should candidates in Pennsylvania school board races be permitted to cross-file? Cross-filing is allowed only in lower-level judicial races and for school board candidates in the Keystone State. It is ...

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HARRISBURG — When Devon Taliaferro first ran for school board in Pittsburgh Public Schools, she filed as a Democrat. She’s a registered member of the party and considers herself a progressive on ...

Editor: In Pennsylvania, judge and school board candidates can cross-file to appear on both party ballots, supposedly to keep these races “non-partisan.” But here in Luzerne County, that’s a joke.

Thank you so much for publishing “Cross-filing in school races is just absurd” (Daily Times, May 10). In just the last two weeks, registered Democrats in Haverford Township have seen proof of the ...

When I was a little girl, there was no such thing as cross-filing. Candidates who wanted to win a nomination – and they could only win one – had to stick with their party affiliations and hope that ...

Call it the curse of cross-filing. As election results were pouring in Tuesday night, political pundit Joseph Sabino Mistick noticed a trend emerging in the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court race.

Pennsylvania’s election system still allows certain political candidates to cross-file: that is, candidates can run in the primary to get on both the Democrat and Republican ticket. This is a problem, ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – To vote in a Pennsylvania Primary, you must be registered with a major political party and when you go to vote, you will only be given that party’s ballot. Some candidates ...