Special elections in 3 local districts Feb. 7 will determine control of Pennsylvania House
PITTSBURGH — Voters in three Pittsburgh area state house districts will decide in next Tuesday's special election who will fill vacant seats to represent them in the Pennsylvania House.
Their choices on Feb. 7 will determine which party has the majority in the state house and whether Democrats keep their recently won, narrow-edge control of the body.
Mail-in and absentee ballots must be returned by Feb. 7 before the polls close at 8 p.m. The deadline to register to vote was Jan. 23. The last day to apply for absentee or mail-in ballots was Jan. 31.
"We have been actively contacting those voters, alerting them to the fact that there's an election and asking them to vote for our Democratic candidates. I think they're out actively campaigning," Sam Hens-Greco, chair of the Allegheny County Democratic Committee, told Pittsburgh's Action News 4.
His counterpart, Sam DeMarco, chair of the Allegheny County Republican Committee, said, "One of the things about special elections is because a lot of folks aren't aware of it, it requires parties and volunteers working on behalf of the candidates to get out there and make the people aware that there is an election and try to get them to the polls."
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