Errors undermine tool designed to help Pennsylvanians find their election polling places [View all]

An official government online tool designed to help Pennsylvanians find their polling places is riddled with misspellings and other quirks that make it difficult for some voters to use.

The errors — which users encounter when they search for their municipality and street name — affect as many as 85,000 of the state’s 8.9 million voters, a Votebeat and Spotlight PA analysis found.

The Pennsylvania Department of State said counties enter their own address information into a centralized voter management system that powers the lookup tool, and it’s their responsibility to fix the problems.

“The Department of State’s Find Your Polling Place tool reflects data that is entered and maintained in the SURE system by the 67 county boards of elections,” said Matt Heckel, press secretary for the department. “The data entered into the SURE system is not managed by the Department, but rather by the counties.”


https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/09/pennsylvania-find-polling-place-election-tool-errors-analysis/