Anonymous ID: 125c65 April 8, 2023, 8:26 p.m. No.18664121   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Key Pa. senator’s record has Democrats, voting advocates worried passing election reform will be difficult

 

WHO IS CRIS DUSH?

 

As the legislature returns to work after a slow start to the session, progressive advocates and Democratic lawmakers worry a critical state Senate committee will be a bottleneck for long-sought improvements, such as pre-processing mail ballots, to Pennsylvania’s election law.

 

Chairing that committee — in the only arm of government controlled by Republicans — is state Sen. Cris Dush (R., Jefferson).

 

Dush is perhaps best known for leading an attempt by the Pennsylvania Senate to perform an Arizona-style investigation of the 2020 electionthough his history with hard-right positions on election issues extends further back. Already this session, he has sponsored bills to eliminate mail voting and require additional election audits.

 

“People are worried about getting any election legislation past him,” said Kyle Miller, a policy advocate with the nonpartisan group Protect Democracy and a former aide to a Democratic member of the committee. “We don’t see a realistic path for getting anything done, given his past.”

 

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/03/pa-cris-dush-election-legislation-fraud-audit-policy/