Pennsylvania’s long-running dispute over dates on mail-in voting ballots is back in the courts
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Pennsylvania’s long-running dispute over dates on mail-in voting ballots is back in the courts

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A technical requirement that Pennsylvania voters write accurate dates on the exterior envelope of mail-in ballots was again the subject of a court proceeding on Thursday as advocates argued the mandate unfairly leads to otherwise valid votes being thrown out. They argued that enforcing the date requirement infringes upon voting rights and that none of the prior cases on the topic directly ruled whether it runs afoul of the state constitution’s Free and Equal Elections Clause. John M. Gore, a lawyer for the state and national Republican Party groups that are fighting the lawsuit, said the court would only have grounds to do so if the procedure was “so difficult as to deny the franchise.” He argued to the judges that the dating requirement is not so onerous that it denies people the right to vote. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled two years ago that mail-in votes may not count if they are “contained in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes.” The justices had split 3-3 on whether making the envelope dates mandatory under state law would violate provisions of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, which states that immaterial errors or omissions should not be used to prevent voting.

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Why Pennsylvania’s election results will take time to count
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why Pennsylvania’s election results will take time to count

Raw Story  

The country is unlikely to know who wins the battleground state of Pennsylvania on election night. Prior to 2020, local election officials never needed to count such a large number of ballots received through the mail, and news organizations could typically announce Pennsylvania’s unofficial winner quickly. Counting may also take less time because election officials have more experience counting the …

Pennsylvania's Strict Mail Ballot Rules May Create Provisional Ballot Crisis on Election Day
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Pennsylvania's Strict Mail Ballot Rules May Create Provisional Ballot Crisis on Election Day

Hindustan Times  

Pennsylvania's mail ballot rules may create a provisional ballot crisis on election day. With around 390,000 mail ballots still outstanding and a deadline of 8 p.m. for receipt, many voters may have to vote in person to ensure their voices are heard. However, voters encountering issues with their mail ballots can opt for provisional ballots on Election Day.

"No truth to the allegation": Trump claims "cheating" in Pennsylvania as voters brave bomb threats
1 month, 2 weeks ago

"No truth to the allegation": Trump claims "cheating" in Pennsylvania as voters brave bomb threats

Salon  

PHILADELPHIA — Standing beside a table on the edge of campus adorned with "Hotties for Harris" signs, University of Pennsylvania student Olivia West explained that she was worried about her freedom. Posting from his residence in Florida, Trump claimed on his website Tuesday afternoon, just hours before polls closed, that there was a "lot of talk about massive CHEATING in …

Pennsylvania's Electoral Battleground: Legal Surprises and Heated Campaigns as Election Looms
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Pennsylvania's Electoral Battleground: Legal Surprises and Heated Campaigns as Election Looms

Hindustan Times  

Pennsylvania is emerging as the jackpot in the hotly contested presidential race, drawing both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in frenzied campaigning on the eve of the election. A surge in legal cases from both sides seeking to gain any advantage in addition to their get-out-the-vote efforts has also made the state a hotbed of political activity.

Pennsylvania Election Lawsuit Surge Shows Why It’s a Top Prize
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Pennsylvania Election Lawsuit Surge Shows Why It’s a Top Prize

Live Mint  

Pennsylvania is emerging as the jackpot in the hotly contested presidential race, drawing both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in frenzied campaigning on the eve of the election, along with a surge in legal cases from both sides. Republicans appealed after Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled the state must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots are disqualified for …

Judge orders PA elections board to extend hours as thousands of mail ballots go missing
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Judge orders PA elections board to extend hours as thousands of mail ballots go missing

Raw Story  

A judge has ordered the Erie County Board of Elections to extend its operating hours and take other steps to ensure that thousands of voters who requested mail ballots but did not receive them can still get mail ballots and return them by the Election Day deadline. The lawsuit claimed that mail ballot return rates in Erie were below the …

Pennsylvania's Strict Voting Laws Put to the Test in Election Court Battle
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Pennsylvania's Strict Voting Laws Put to the Test in Election Court Battle

Hindustan Times  

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in the state's presidential election. The ruling is a victory for voting-rights advocates, who had sought to force counties to let voters cast a provisional ballot on Election Day if their mail-in ballot was to be rejected for …

Dems sue after 1,800 mail-in ballots lost in key swing state
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Dems sue after 1,800 mail-in ballots lost in key swing state

Raw Story  

On Election Night 2024, one of the most closely watched states will be Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Capital-Star reporter Kim Lyons wrote, "The issues in Erie began with an Ohio-based third-party vendor, ElectionIQ, that the county contracts with to print and mail its mail ballots, given the volume of requests for mail ballots the county has received for the upcoming election…. The …

Pennsylvania's Ballot Battle: A Timeline of Election Night
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Pennsylvania's Ballot Battle: A Timeline of Election Night

Firstpost  

The article discusses the potential length of time it will take to determine the winner of Pennsylvania in the 2024 US presidential election. Pennsylvania is crucial to both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and the outcome of the election could have significant implications for the political landscape of the country.

Supreme Court turns away GOP plea to disqualify Pennsylvania voters who mailed ballots with errors
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court turns away GOP plea to disqualify Pennsylvania voters who mailed ballots with errors

LA Times  

Voters wait in line to make a corrections to their ballots in Philadelphia in 2022. The Supreme Court on Friday turned down an appeal from the Republican National Committee and refused to disqualify Pennsylvania voters who had sent in a mail ballot with an error on the envelope. By a 4-3 vote, the state justices ruled that voters who sent …

Republicans ask Pennsylvania court to put on hold decision on mail ballot envelope rules
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Republicans ask Pennsylvania court to put on hold decision on mail ballot envelope rules

LA Times  

Mail-in ballots are handled in a secure area at the elections warehouse in Pittsburgh in April. Republicans wasted no time in appealing a Pennsylvania court decision that would relax the rules for mail ballots, asking the state Supreme Court on Thursday to reverse a lower court opinion issued one day earlier. The Commonwealth Court, in a 3-2 decision, said 69 …

GOP challenges Pa. Supreme Court ruling on 'Naked Ballots' case ahead of election
1 month, 4 weeks ago

GOP challenges Pa. Supreme Court ruling on 'Naked Ballots' case ahead of election

Raw Story  

The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania have asked the state’s highest court to delay a ruling that could affect thousands of voters next month while it asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal. The Republican groups argued in their petition that the state Supreme Court’s order affirming the lower court decision fundamentally alters the …

Time is Running Out for Pennsylvanians to Request a Mail Ballot and Submit It to Vote in the Nov. 5 General Election
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Time is Running Out for Pennsylvanians to Request a Mail Ballot and Submit It to Vote in the Nov. 5 General Election

Associated Press  

Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot deadline is approaching, with the deadline to request a ballot Tuesday at 5 p.m. Voters can request a ballot at their county elections office or online through the Department of State. Counties have different policies for notifying voters of errors on return envelopes, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that any voter who attempted to vote …

A New Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Could Tip the Entire Election
1 month, 4 weeks ago

A New Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Could Tip the Entire Election

Slate  

This piece was originally published on State Court Report, a hub for reporting, analysis, and commentary about state courts and constitutions. With less than two weeks until Election Day and mail-in ballots already in circulation, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled citizens have a right to vote by provisional ballot if their mail-in ballot is disqualified for a failure to return it …

In a close election, here are three legal disputes that could reach the Supreme Court
2 months, 1 week ago

In a close election, here are three legal disputes that could reach the Supreme Court

LA Times  

In a nail-biter election Nov. 5, expect the losing side to challenge the results in court. Two weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to rule on mail-ballot errors, leaving the state’s 67 counties to decide on how to proceed. A state appeals court agreed in August, holding that it violated the state Constitution to throw out ballots because of …

Nov. 5 election too close to decide mail-in ballot issues: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Nov. 5 election too close to decide mail-in ballot issues: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Raw Story  

In a pair of decisions published Saturday evening the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied requests to resolve questions about the commonwealth’s vote-by-mail law in the final few weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election. The court also rejected a request by the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania to stop county election officials from allowing voters to remedy …

Voting gets underway in Pennsylvania, as counties mail ballots and open satellite election offices
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Voting gets underway in Pennsylvania, as counties mail ballots and open satellite election offices

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. HARRISBURG, Pa. — Voting has begun in earnest in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, as counties increasingly begin mailing out ballots, offering over-the-counter voting in election offices and opening other avenues to voting. Montgomery County, the state’s third-most populous county, has started mailing out ballots and, on Friday, it …

Trump is trying to have it both ways with mail-in voting
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump is trying to have it both ways with mail-in voting

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He claimed there were “shenanigans” with mail-in ballots …

Ballot dating lawsuit argues 10,000+ Pennsylvania voters could be disenfranchised
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Ballot dating lawsuit argues 10,000+ Pennsylvania voters could be disenfranchised

Raw Story  

Ten voting rights groups have asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to block enforcement of a rule that disqualifies mail-in ballots returned without a date. Lawyers for the voting rights groups say that if county election boards disqualify ballots that are returned by the Election Day deadline but don’t have a correct date on the outside envelope, more than 10,000 voters …

What to know about ‘undated’ and ‘naked’ mail ballots in Pennsylvania
2 months, 4 weeks ago

What to know about ‘undated’ and ‘naked’ mail ballots in Pennsylvania

NPR  

What to know about ‘undated’ and ‘naked’ mail ballots in Pennsylvania toggle caption Matt Slocum/AP With voting underway for Pennsylvania’s general election, legal questions about the ballots of mail-in voters have been looming in the swing state that could determine the winner of the presidential race. In September, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court cited procedural issues and threw out an earlier …

Court takes 'naked ballots' case over Pennsylvania mail-in voting
3 months ago

Court takes 'naked ballots' case over Pennsylvania mail-in voting

Hindustan Times  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's highest court on Friday said it will consider whether counties must accept provisional ballots cast on election day at polling places by voters whose mail-in ballots lacked secrecy envelopes or were rejected for other flaws. Court takes 'naked ballots' case over Pennsylvania mail-in voting It could determine the fate of thousands of votes that could otherwise …

Court takes ‘naked ballots’ case over Pennsylvania mail-in voting
3 months ago

Court takes ‘naked ballots’ case over Pennsylvania mail-in voting

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Friday said it will consider whether counties must accept provisional ballots cast on election day at polling places by voters whose mail-in ballots lacked secrecy envelopes or were rejected for other flaws. The Supreme Court took up the appeal from a Commonwealth Court …

Pennsylvania court rejects Cornel West’s bid to get on ballot and clears way for mail voting
3 months, 1 week ago

Pennsylvania court rejects Cornel West’s bid to get on ballot and clears way for mail voting

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that rejected a bid to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on the ballot for the November election in the battleground state. The decision also sets in motion the process for counties to start printing, testing and …

Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with flawed dates on envelopes can be thrown out, court rules
3 months, 1 week ago

Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with flawed dates on envelopes can be thrown out, court rules

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania voters could have their mail-in ballots thrown out if they do not write accurate dates on envelopes they use to return them under a state Supreme Court ruling issued Friday that could impact the presidential race. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley in a release called it a major victory for election integrity “that will protect …

Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with flawed dates on envelopes can be thrown out, court rules
3 months, 1 week ago

Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with flawed dates on envelopes can be thrown out, court rules

CNN  

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania AP — Pennsylvania voters could have their mail-in ballots thrown out if they do not write accurate dates on envelopes they use to return them under a state Supreme Court ruling issued Friday that could impact the presidential race. The Supreme Court’s reversal of that decision raises the prospect that thousands of ballots that arrive in time might …

Pennsylvania voters can cast a provisional ballot if their mail ballot is rejected, court says
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Pennsylvania voters can cast a provisional ballot if their mail ballot is rejected, court says

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A court decided Thursday that voters in the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania can cast provisional ballots in place of mail-in ballots that are rejected for a garden-variety mistake they made when they returned it. The three-member panel ruled that nothing in state law prevented Republican-controlled Butler County from counting two voters’ provisional ballots in the April 23 …

Court stops Pennsylvania counties from throwing out mail-in votes over incorrect envelope dates
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Court stops Pennsylvania counties from throwing out mail-in votes over incorrect envelope dates

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A state court Friday halted enforcement of a requirement that voters include accurate, handwritten dates on envelopes used to submit mail-in ballots, a ruling likely to keep several thousand Pennsylvania votes from being thrown out in the November election. “The refusal to count undated or incorrectly dated but timely mail ballots submitted by otherwise eligible voters because …

Pennsylvania county broke law by refusing to tell voters if it rejected their ballot, judge says
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Pennsylvania county broke law by refusing to tell voters if it rejected their ballot, judge says

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Republican-controlled county in Pennsylvania violated state law when election workers refused to tell voters that their mail-in ballot had been rejected and wouldn’t be counted in last April’s primary election, a judge ruled. As a result, voters in Washington County were unable to exercise their legal right either to challenge the decision of the county elections …

Lawsuit says Pennsylvania county deliberately hid decisions to invalidate some mail-in ballots
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Lawsuit says Pennsylvania county deliberately hid decisions to invalidate some mail-in ballots

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A western Pennsylvania county’s elected commissioners were sued Monday over a policy adopted for this year’s primary in which people whose mail-in ballots were disqualified for technical violations say they were purposely not informed in time to fix errors. Seven disqualified primary voters, the local NAACP branch and the Center for Coalfield Justice sued Washington County’s election …

Dispute over mailed ballots in a New Jersey county delays outcome of congressional primary
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Dispute over mailed ballots in a New Jersey county delays outcome of congressional primary

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. Whether to count more than 1,900 mail ballots cast in one New Jersey county will be up to a judge after their envelopes were unsealed prematurely and members of the local election board deadlocked on how to proceed. At the center of the dispute is a state law that allows …

New court challenge filed in Pennsylvania to prevent some mail-in ballots from getting thrown out
6 months, 3 weeks ago

New court challenge filed in Pennsylvania to prevent some mail-in ballots from getting thrown out

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A new lawsuit filed Tuesday by a constellation of left-leaning groups in Pennsylvania is trying to prevent thousands of mail-in ballots from being thrown out in November’s election in a battleground state that is expected to play a critical role in selecting a new president. The lawsuit, filed in a state court, is the latest of perhaps …

Pennsylvania sees fewer mail ballots rejected for technicalities, a priority for election officials
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Pennsylvania sees fewer mail ballots rejected for technicalities, a priority for election officials

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania election officials said Wednesday that the rate of mail-in ballots rejected for technicalities, like a missing date, saw a significant drop in last month’s primary election after state officials tried anew to help voters avoid mistakes that might get their ballots thrown out. Pennsylvania’s top election official, Secretary of State Al Schmidt, said counties reported a …

Trump and Republicans file suit to nullify Nevada ballots mailed on Election Day
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump and Republicans file suit to nullify Nevada ballots mailed on Election Day

Raw Story  

The Trump campaign and its Republican allies on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging Nevada’s ballot receipt deadline. Nevada law allows for mail ballots postmarked on Election Day to be accepted and counted if they are received by county election officials within four days. Plaintiffs in the new lawsuit argue that practice violates federal law and as a result “valid, timely …

Democrats advance election bill in Pennsylvania long sought by counties to process ballots faster
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Democrats advance election bill in Pennsylvania long sought by counties to process ballots faster

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill long sought by counties seeking help to manage huge influxes of mail-in ballots during elections in the presidential battleground state and to avoid a repeat of 2020’s drawn-out vote count. Counties have sought that kind of a provision for years, even before 2020’s presidential election, to give them …

Pennsylvania redesigned its mail-in ballot envelopes amid litigation. Some voters still tripped up
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Pennsylvania redesigned its mail-in ballot envelopes amid litigation. Some voters still tripped up

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. HARRISBURG, Pa. — A form Pennsylvania voters must complete on the outside of mail-in ballot return envelopes has been redesigned, but that did not prevent some voters from failing to complete it accurately for this week’s primary, and some votes will not count as a result, election officials said. The …

Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law, appeals court says
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law, appeals court says

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots does not run afoul of a civil rights law, a federal appeals court panel said Wednesday, overturning a lower court ruling. In the court’s opinion, Judge Thomas Ambro said the section of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that the …

US appeals court to decide if Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with wrong date still count
10 months ago

US appeals court to decide if Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with wrong date still count

Associated Press  

PHILADELPHIA — A federal appeals court must decide if Pennsylvania voters need to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots for the votes to count, a dispute with implications for this year’s presidential contest. Ari Savitzky, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union representing several voter groups, told the court that more than 10,000 …

'Thousands of mail ballots not counted': PA fixing issue that disenfranchised 17K voters
1 year ago

'Thousands of mail ballots not counted': PA fixing issue that disenfranchised 17K voters

Raw Story  

Pennsylvania played a key role in deciding the last two presidential elections, and appears poised to be similarly decisive in the 2024 race. According to WPSU, Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro is now working in conjunction with Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt to fix issues with Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot system that can be confusing for some voters. Currently, commonwealth law …

Pennsylvania is trying to help voters avoid mistakes that would invalidate their mail ballot
1 year ago

Pennsylvania is trying to help voters avoid mistakes that would invalidate their mail ballot

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania is trying anew to help voters using mail-in ballots in the battleground state avoid mistakes that might get their ballot thrown out in 2024’s presidential election and beyond. The effort comes amid a partisan stalemate in Pennsylvania’s Legislature and court battles over provisions in the state’s four-year-old mail-in voting law that have led counties to throw …

Federal judge says Pennsylvania mail-in ballots should still count if dated incorrectly
1 year, 1 month ago

Federal judge says Pennsylvania mail-in ballots should still count if dated incorrectly

Associated Press  

Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania without accurate handwritten dates on their exterior envelopes must still be counted if they are received in time, a judge ruled Tuesday, concluding that rejecting such ballots violates federal civil rights law. Josh Shapiro, which oversees elections statewide, said in a statement that it is reviewing the court’s decision, “but we are pleased with the result.” …

Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law is upheld again, as court rules against Republican challenge
1 year, 5 months ago

Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law is upheld again, as court rules against Republican challenge

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania state court on Tuesday rejected the latest Republican effort to throw out the presidential battleground state’s broad mail-in voting law that has become a GOP target following former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about election fraud. It is the latest of several refusals by a state court to invalidate Pennsylvania’s 2019 mail-in voting law, enacted …

Printing error forces Pennsylvania county to replace ballots
1 year, 8 months ago

Printing error forces Pennsylvania county to replace ballots

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Elections officials in a central Pennsylvania county were scrambling on Monday to fix an error on more than 18,000 mail-in ballots for the spring primary, when voters will elect judges for the state Supreme Court and other positions. Late last week someone noticed that the ballot for Superior Court instructed Republican and Democratic primary voters to pick …

Pennsylvania judge dismisses latest GOP mail ballot lawsuit
1 year, 9 months ago

Pennsylvania judge dismisses latest GOP mail ballot lawsuit

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee that had sought to prevent counties from helping voters ensure their ballots count by fixing minor, technical deficiencies on mail-in ballot envelopes. The lawsuit, filed in the statewide Commonwealth Court, had argued that state law prevents what is known as “ballot curing” and, …

Majority of 16k canceled Pa. mail-in ballots were from Dems
1 year, 11 months ago

Majority of 16k canceled Pa. mail-in ballots were from Dems

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — New data from Pennsylvania’s elections agency shows an early November state court decision that barred mail-in ballots without accurate handwritten dates on their exterior envelopes resulted in otherwise valid votes being thrown out. “There is no similar automatic notification system for voters who do not provide an email address when applying for a mail ballot.” Pennsylvania Democrats …

Pennsylvanians scurry to fix mail-in ballots after ruling
2 years, 1 month ago

Pennsylvanians scurry to fix mail-in ballots after ruling

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Some of Pennsylvania’s largest counties scrambled Monday to help voters fix mail-in ballots that have fatal flaws such as incorrect dates or missing signatures on the envelopes used to send them in, bringing about confusion and legal challenges in the battleground state on the eve of the election. They sued county boards of election across the state, …

Suit seeks to have mail-in votes lacking dates counted
2 years, 1 month ago

Suit seeks to have mail-in votes lacking dates counted

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Several Pennsylvania groups represented by the American Civil Liberties Union have filed suit in federal court seeking to have votes from mail-in or absentee ballots counted even if they lack proper dates on their return envelopes. The suit filed Friday night in western Pennsylvania by state chapters of the NAACP, League of Women Voters, and Common Cause …

Pennsylvania court: Ballots in undated envelopes won’t count
2 years, 1 month ago

Pennsylvania court: Ballots in undated envelopes won’t count

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania officials cannot count votes from mail-in or absentee ballots that lack accurate, handwritten dates on their return envelopes, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday, a week before tabulation will begin in races for governor, the U.S. Senate and the state Legislature. State and national Republican Party organizations and several GOP voters sought immediate review by …

Justices to sort out if mail-in ballot envelopes need dates
2 years, 1 month ago

Justices to sort out if mail-in ballot envelopes need dates

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Senior Pennsylvania elections officials argued in a new court filing Tuesday that handwritten dates on the envelopes that many state voters use to mail in ballots should not be deemed mandatory, in part because of a half-century-old legislative ruling deemphasizing their importance. The filing, made under a compressed schedule laid out just four days earlier by the …

GOP asks Pa. Supreme Court to take immediate action to enforce ballot dating requirement
2 years, 2 months ago

GOP asks Pa. Supreme Court to take immediate action to enforce ballot dating requirement

Raw Story  

A group of Pennsylvania voters, backed by state and national Republican groups, have asked the state Supreme Court to declare that undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots cannot be counted in the Nov. 8 election. And it’s been a week since the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a federal appeals court ruling that undated ballots must be counted. The latest …

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