Legal challenges play out as voters cast ballots in midterms
2 years, 1 month ago

Legal challenges play out as voters cast ballots in midterms

Associated Press  

Election legal challenges were playing out Tuesday as voters cast ballots across the country in the midterm elections. Here’s a look at at the legal challenges playing out in some states: TEXAS A federal judge in Texas has barred election volunteers and workers at a polling location in a predominantly Black neighborhood from asking voters to publicly recite their address before allowing them to cast a ballot in the midterm elections. PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman’s campaign went to court late Monday in a bid to have mail-in ballots that lack accurate handwritten dates on the exterior envelopes counted. Fetterman’s campaign — in partnership with national congressional and senatorial Democratic campaign organizations and two voters — sued county boards of election across the state, arguing that throwing out ballots that lack proper envelope dates would violate a provision in the 1964 U.S. Civil Rights Act that says people can’t be kept from voting based on what the lawsuit calls “needless technical requirements.” In Philadelphia, voters who had missing or incorrect dates on their mail-in ballots were being allowed to file replacement ballots at City Hall or vote provisionally at their regular precincts Tuesday.

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"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 …

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 …

A New Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Could Tip the Entire Election
2 months 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use
8 months, 2 weeks ago

GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use

CNN  

CNN — Republican leaders are encouraging their supporters to vote by mail in this year’s consequential presidential election, even as their party pursues lawsuits and legislation that would make it harder for those votes to count. But amid the legislative and legal attacks on early voting, the GOP’s leadership is nonetheless vowing a robust program to convince Republicans to turn …

Republican lawsuits challenge mail ballot deadlines. Could they upend voting across the country?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Republican lawsuits challenge mail ballot deadlines. Could they upend voting across the country?

Associated Press  

Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two states in a legal maneuver that could have widespread implications for mail voting before the presidential election in November. “However, some states accept and count ballots days and days after Election Day, and we believe that practice is wrong.” RNC spokesperson Gates McGavick said the group hopes for a …

Judge vows to move quickly on dispute over mail-in votes
2 years, 4 months ago

Judge vows to move quickly on dispute over mail-in votes

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The judge in a case brought by Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration against three counties that aren’t reporting mail-in ballots lacking handwritten dates on their return envelopes told lawyers Friday she will rule as quickly as possible. Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer presided over an online conference in the litigation brought by the Department of State under …

Republicans challenge Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law anew
2 years, 5 months ago

Republicans challenge Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law anew

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republicans have sued again in an attempt to throw out Pennsylvania’s broad mail-in voting law, even as the state’s highest court considers a separate lawsuit aimed at wiping out a law that lost favor with Republicans following former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about election fraud. In a dissent in a 2020 election case at the state …

Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidates clash in court over disputed ballots
2 years, 6 months ago

Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidates clash in court over disputed ballots

Raw Story  

On Tuesday, The New York Timesreported that the two main candidates for the Republican Senate nomination in Pennsylvania, TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz and businessman David McCormick, clashed in court over whether certain disputed ballots should be counted in the razor-thin primary contest that leaves Oz fewer than a thousand votes ahead. "Mr. McCormick filed a lawsuit on May 23 …

Court battles go down to count deadline in Pa. Senate race
2 years, 7 months ago

Court battles go down to count deadline in Pa. Senate race

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick went to Pennsylvania’s highest court Tuesday in an eleventh-hour bid to help him close the gap in votes with celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for U.S. Senate. In a statement, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, Matt Raymer, said “election laws are meant to …

Court throws Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law into doubt
2 years, 10 months ago

Court throws Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law into doubt

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A court declared Friday that Pennsylvania’s expansive 2-year-old mail-in voting law violates the state constitution, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on the practice after former President Donald Trump began baselessly attacked it as rife with fraud in his 2020 reelection campaign. Even Republicans who avoid repeating Trump’s baseless election fraud claims have perpetuated the idea …

Wisconsin Supreme Court tosses Trump election lawsuit
4 years ago

Wisconsin Supreme Court tosses Trump election lawsuit

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn his election loss in the battleground state about an hour before the Electoral College cast Wisconsin’s 10 votes for Democrat Joe Biden. In the 4-3 ruling, the court’s three liberal justices were joined by conservative swing Justice Brian Hagedorn who said …

Elections shaping up to become major issue in Legislature
4 years ago

Elections shaping up to become major issue in Legislature

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania who are still questioning without basis the validity of the Nov. 3 election are drafting a boatload of voting-related legislation, with top Democrats quickly accusing them of setting up a sham process and undermining faith in elections. While top Republicans vowed to make a major initiative out of addressing what they deem to …

Pennsylvania high court rejects lawsuit challenging election
4 years ago

Pennsylvania high court rejects lawsuit challenging election

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot in the latest lawsuit filed by Republicans attempting to thwart President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state. The state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, threw out the three-day-old order, …

Pennsylvania high court rejects latest lawsuit challenging election
4 years ago

Pennsylvania high court rejects latest lawsuit challenging election

LA Times  

A canvas observer photographs Lehigh County provisional ballots during vote counting in the general election Nov. 6 in Allentown, Pa. Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot in the latest lawsuit filed by Republicans attempting to thwart President-elect Joe Biden’s victory …

Suit challenges expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania
4 years, 1 month ago

Suit challenges expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly is leading a suit filed Saturday in Pennsylvania challenging the use of mail-in ballots predominately cast by Democrats in lifting Joe Biden to victory in the presidential race in the state and seeking to block certification of the election results. The Legislature, the plaintiffs contend, “first recognized their constitutional restraints and the need to amend …

In blistering ruling, judge throws out Trump suit in Pa.
4 years, 1 month ago

In blistering ruling, judge throws out Trump suit in Pa.

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge issued a scathing order Saturday dismissing the Trump campaign’s futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down claims of widespread irregularities with mail-in ballots. “One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption,” …

What is really behind Trump’s legal challenges?
4 years, 1 month ago

What is really behind Trump’s legal challenges?

Al Jazeera  

Trump’s goal is not to overturn the election – it is to undermine the Biden administration. The Republican leadership have also expressed support for Trump’s legal challenges and have made claims of widespread voter fraud. Legal challenges We are in for a rocky ride until election results are officially certified, which could take weeks, because of the legal challenges Trump …

US judge sceptical of Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania challenge
4 years, 1 month ago

US judge sceptical of Trump campaign’s Pennsylvania challenge

Al Jazeera  

The Trump campaign is suing to prevent certification of results that give Joe Biden the state’s 20 electoral votes. A judge on Tuesday appeared sceptical of President Donald Trump’s request to block officials from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, underscoring the difficulties the Trump campaign has faced in challenging the outcome of the US election. As …

Election validity intact despite Trump’s ‘rigged’ claims
4 years, 1 month ago

Election validity intact despite Trump’s ‘rigged’ claims

Al Jazeera  

As Trump insists the election was tainted by widespread voting fraud, evidence continues to elude him. The US presidential election was not tainted by widespread voter fraud or irregularities in how ballots were counted, despite continued efforts by President Donald Trump to prove otherwise. Vote counting was slow in three Midwestern states that went for Trump four years ago and …

Trump campaign sues to stop Pennsylvania certifying Biden win
4 years, 1 month ago

Trump campaign sues to stop Pennsylvania certifying Biden win

Al Jazeera  

US President Donald Trump’s campaign files suit against the Pennsylvania secretary of state and some county boards of elections. The Trump campaign is asking the court to issue an emergency order stopping election officials from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state, and a permanent injunction requiring county election boards to invalidate ballots that were allowed to be “cured”. …

Trump campaign files new Pennsylvania lawsuit: Election news
4 years, 1 month ago

Trump campaign files new Pennsylvania lawsuit: Election news

Al Jazeera  

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit arguing that in-person voters faced more scrutiny than mail-in voters. “The American people voted to place their faith in President-elect Biden to confront those challenges.” 9 Nov 2020 - 21:01 GMT McConnell says Trump within rights to challenge election results Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in his first public remarks since the election …

With counting winding down, Trump team pushes legal fights
4 years, 1 month ago

With counting winding down, Trump team pushes legal fights

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump’s defeat. Biden, for his part, has said he expects to win the election, but he counseled patience Thursday, saying: “Each ballot must be counted.” …

GOP lawsuits thus far challenging few ballots with no proof of fraud
4 years, 1 month ago

GOP lawsuits thus far challenging few ballots with no proof of fraud

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee’s vows to challenge the election results and win through the courts appear unlikely to be successful with so few ballots at issue in litigation to make any difference in enough states to matter. A lawyer for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party wrote in a brief to the high court that it …

Judge tosses Trump challenge to New Jersey mail-in ballots
4 years, 2 months ago

Judge tosses Trump challenge to New Jersey mail-in ballots

Associated Press  

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by President Donald Trump’s campaign that had sought to stop New Jersey’s mail-in ballot program. U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp’s opinion was foreshadowed when he rejected the GOP’s request for an injunction to stop the program on Oct. 6 and wrote the plaintiffs “fail to establish they are likely to succeed on …

Supreme Court rejects GOP attempt to require mail-in ballots be received by Election Day in Pennsylvania
4 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court rejects GOP attempt to require mail-in ballots be received by Election Day in Pennsylvania

CNN  

CNN — Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania – a critical state for President Donald Trump’s reelection chances – will be counted if they are received within three days of Election Day even if they do not have a legible postmark, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. “But with the confirmation of Judge Barrett seemingly a fait accompli, this may be one of …

Mail-in ballot requests pass 2.6M in Pennsylvania
4 years, 2 months ago

Mail-in ballot requests pass 2.6M in Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — With three weeks to go before the Nov. 3 election, more than 2.6 million registered voters have applied for a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania, a battleground state hotly contested by President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. In the meantime, partisan lawsuits over Pennsylvania’s poll-watching restrictions, the deadline to receive mail-in ballots and counting mail-in …

A look at some of the voting-related lawsuits across the US
4 years, 2 months ago

A look at some of the voting-related lawsuits across the US

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of lawsuits about voting have been filed ahead of the November election. Here’s a look at some of the top lawsuits in battleground states: NORTH CAROLINA: The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee are suing in federal court to block state election officials from enforcing rule changes that could boost the number of ballots counted. The …

Trump campaign’s election lawsuit in Pennsylvania halted
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump campaign’s election lawsuit in Pennsylvania halted

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Sunday put a high-profile election case on hold, telling President Donald Trump’s campaign that its claims must wait, at least until October, for state courts in the presidential battleground to clear up crucial fights, including over collecting and counting mail-in ballots. U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan put the case on …

Signed, Sealed, Undelivered: Thousands Of Mail-In Ballots Rejected For Tardiness
4 years, 5 months ago

Signed, Sealed, Undelivered: Thousands Of Mail-In Ballots Rejected For Tardiness

NPR  

Signed, Sealed, Undelivered: Thousands Of Mail-In Ballots Rejected For Tardiness Enlarge this image toggle caption Kate Albright/Montclair Local Kate Albright/Montclair Local Mail-in voting, which tens of millions of Americans are expected to use this November, is fraught with potential problems. Enlarge this image toggle caption Ethan Miller/Getty Images Ethan Miller/Getty Images Democrats and progressive groups are suing to change the …

Trump campaign sues over mail-in drop-off sites for ballots
4 years, 5 months ago

Trump campaign sues over mail-in drop-off sites for ballots

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, the national Republican Party and four western Pennsylvania members of Congress sued Monday to force changes to how the state collects and counts mail-in ballots under revamped rules. The federal lawsuit filed in Pittsburgh claims that as voters jumped to make use of the greatly broadened eligibility for mail-in ballots during the …

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