Luzerne County Board of Elections and Registration

The Luzerne County Board of Elections did not move forward Thursday with challenges to a petition for a referendum on the county’s new non-discrimination ordinance.

The Luzerne County Board of Elections will hold a public hearing next week to rule on signature challenges on a petition to repeal the county’s non-discrimination ordinance.

The state department that oversees elections says to blame Luzerne County for 31 voters getting two mail-in ballots for the upcoming election. And as the state budget impasse passes the 100-day mark, Pa. Gov. Shapiro lashes out at the state senate.

The Pennsylvania Department of State says 31 Luzerne County voters received two mail-in ballots for the Nov. 4 election because the county produced duplicate mailing labels.

The state system that tracks voter registrations mistakenly produced two mail-in ballots for 31 Luzerne County voters, but the extras were immediately cancelled, the county announced Tuesday.

Luzerne County officials said the State Unified Registry of Electors produced two ballots for 31 county voters for reasons that remain unclear, but the county cancelled the extra ballots immediately.

Voters in Laflin Borough will have until 9:30 p.m. to make up for a delay opening a polling place this morning.

Drop boxes will be available for voters in Luzerne County - at least for this election.In a 3-2 vote last week, the county's board of elections voted to keep the county’s drop boxes and ended the back and forth over them that started when county manager Romilda Crocamo decided to remove them.WVIA's Sarah Scinto and Roger DuPuis have been following the drop box battle from the start. Here's a recap of the issue from Morning Edition on WVIA Radio.

Luzerne County's manager will deploy ballot drop boxes for the November election after hearing from the state Attorney General.

Lawyer Mark Cedrone said the Luzerne County Board of Elections may resolve the issue outside of court.