Luzerne County struggles to leave behind election troubles after years of staff turnover and errors
A Pennsylvania county that has drawn congressional scrutiny for the way it runs elections continued to experience problems in 2025, despite a stabilization in leadership and changes aimed at preventing errors.
For Luzerne County, the most populous in northeastern Pennsylvania, the issues this year started in October with a mix-up with mail ballots that resulted in the county mistakenly sending 31 voters two ballots.
The county quickly canceled the duplicate ballots and blamed the mishap on a state-run software program.
“It's not a specifically Luzerne County issue,” Emily Cook, the county’s election director, told the local NPR affiliate. “It's not something that we did ourselves.”
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