Sam Dunklau
Capitol Bureau ReporterSam Dunklau is the Capitol Bureau Chief for WESA. He previously covered Illinois state government for NPR member station WUIS in Springfield, IL.
Since 2015, Sam has been floating around the radio airwaves as a reporter, disc jockey, and station manager. He grew up in the small midwestern town of Paw Paw, Illinois and is a proud graduate of Augustana College.
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State election law and Dept. of State guidance show ballots are counted and re-counted, a process that's open to a representative for each candidate and party. -
Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to veto the bill.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court temporarily blocked the inspection.
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The forces that inspired an attack on the U.S. Capitol a year ago Thursday are still influencing some voters and policy goals at the Pennsylvania Capitol – and are starting to make their mark on the upcoming primary.
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Pennsylvanians are sharing their thoughts on plans to redraw the state’s House, Senate and Congressional district maps.
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A U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol wants to talk with midstate Congressman Scott Perry (R, PA-10) about what he knows – but the GOP lawmaker said Tuesday that he’s “declining” that request.
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The House Republican caucus blasted out a press release deriding the House proposal as an “extreme partisan gerrymander in favor of Democrats.”
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A citizen-led commission created last year to improve state-level law enforcement practices now has a few ideas to share.
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Two proposed congressional district maps — one formally released by House Republicans, one leaked from the Senate — are now public in Pennsylvania.
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Multiple federal investigations as well as court rulings and state-mandated audits of ballots from every Pennsylvania county have turned up no evidence of election problems that were out of the ordinary. The Department of State has said the last several election cycles ran smoothly. Even so, Pa. Senate Republicans are paying over a quarter million dollars in taxpayer money to an Iowa-based company, Envoy Sage LLC, to investigate those elections.
