EDITORIAL: Lawmakers' unfounded election fraud claims cost taxpayers millions

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Apr. 15—Republican state and federal lawmakers who attempted to overturn Pennsylvania's free and fair presidential election, including U.S. Reps. Dan Meuser and Fred Keller of Northeast Pennsylvania, not only betrayed the state's voters but imposed nearly

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