HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania's top election official spent the past year in the hot seat as she oversaw the vote in a swing state where the margin between presidential candidates would end up being barely 80,000 votes out of nearly 7 million cast.
Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar helped implement a complicated 2019 vote-by-mail law, as well as an update rushed through to address the pandemic's challenges.
Many counties were using new paper-record voting machines for the first time. The primary had to be delayed. And there was a relentless series of lawsuits and legislative hearings launched by Republicans, including a major case brought by then-President Donald Trump's campaign in which Boockvar was the defendant.