Pennsylvania Republican State Senator Doug Mastriano tweeted on Thursday his plans to introduce legislation to repeal "no-excuse" mail-in voting.

Mastriano, who represents Adam County and parts of Cumberland, Franklin and York Counties in the Senate, is partnering with Senator Patrick Stefano of the 32nd District to introduce the legislation. The announcement was also sent out as a memorandum to senators  on Thursday.

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No excuse mail-in voting was signed into law on October 31, 2019 by Governor Tom Wolf as part of Act 77, a bipartisan election reform bill. The change allowed Pennsylvanians to request an absentee ballot without an excuse as previously required. Pennsylvania became the 12th state in the nation to make this change.

According to Act 77's voting tallies, Mastriano voted in favor of the bill's passage initially.  However, the senator, in an op-ed penned on December 11, took issue with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision to uphold the state's extension of the mail-in ballot deadline to 3 days after Election Day. This decision was made in response to the COVID-19 crisis.