Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania’s secretary of state and its top elections official, will resign over her department’s reported failure to advertise a proposed constitutional amendment that would extend the statute of limitations for survivors of childhood sex abuse to file actions against their abusers. Gov. Tom Wolf said her resignation will go into effect on Feb. 5. The secretary of state’s office is constitutionally required to advertise a proposed amendment, according to the governor’s office. Wolf stressed that the resignation had nothing to do with Boockvar’s oversight of the Nov. 3 election in Pennsylvania, in which she was at the center of a slew of failed lawsuits filed by former President Donald Trump and surrogates that claimed rampant fraud had occurred. “This change at the Department of State has nothing to do with the administration of the 2020 election, which was fair and accurate,” Wolf said. The secretary’s office had to advertise the …
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Resigning Over Amendment Issue: Governor
February 1, 2021
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