2020 Pennsylvania General Election Mail Ballot Request Records

Mail ballot request records for the 2020 General Election in Pennsylvania provide a snapshot of application volume and processing. The data includes voter demographics, application types, and district information, sourced from the Pennsylvania Department of State via data.pa.gov. The dataset was last updated in July 2025 but contains no further updates for the 2020 election.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in Mail Application Type (e.g., CRI, M, V) by County Name and Applicant Party Designation.
• Model the time between Application Approved Date and Ballot Mailed Date to study administrative efficiency.
• Correlate voter Date of Birth with Applicant Party Designation across different Congressional Districts.
• Track ballot return rates by comparing Ballot Returned Date against Ballot Mailed Date for different State House Districts.

Strengths

• Includes multiple election district columns (Congressional District, State House District, State Senate District) for geographic analysis.
• Documents specific UOCAVA application types for military and overseas voters.
• Provides key dates in the ballot lifecycle (Application Return Date, Application Approved Date, Ballot Mailed Date).

Limitations

• Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset scale and representativeness.
• Date of Birth field contains placeholder values (1/1/1800) for confidentiality, limiting age-based analysis for a subset of records.
• Data is a final snapshot for the 2020 election with no ongoing updates, limiting temporal analysis to a single point in time.

Provenance

Source

Pennsylvania Department of State, published via data.pa.gov.

Collection Method

Administrative records from the state's election management system.

Time Range

2020 General Election period.

Freshness

Final snapshot for the 2020 election; last updated on platform in July 2025 with no further updates.

Geography

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States.