Pennsylvania redesigned its mail-in ballot envelopes amid litigation. Some voters still tripped up
8 months 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 forms prompt voters with a preprinted “20” and requires them to complete the year by adding “24.” “I think we’ve received a lot of positive feedback” about the redesign, Schmidt said, “and I’m confident it will result in fewer voters making unintentional, minor errors that are, however, defective in nature.” The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, which represents several voter groups in the federal litigation, has said more than 10,000 ballots in the state were disqualified in 2022 based on what opponents of the mandate consider to be a meaningless paperwork error. Votebeat Pennsylvania reported Monday that a top state election administrator told counties in an email last week they should count ballots “if the date written on the ballot can reasonably be interpreted to be ‘the day upon which completed the declaration.’” Lycoming County is not following that advice, and county Elections Director Forrest Lehman said his experience during the primary suggests the changes have not helped get more votes counted. By the time the outer envelope email from the Department of State arrived last week, Berks County spokesperson Stephanie Nojiri said, officials there had already decided to count those that lack the “24” for the year because the new envelopes were all printed in 2024.

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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 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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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’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 …

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 …

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.” …

Posts misrepresent voting machine error in Pennsylvania county as evidence of ‘rigged’ elections
54 years, 11 months ago

Posts misrepresent voting machine error in Pennsylvania county as evidence of ‘rigged’ elections

Associated Press  

CLAIM: Democrats cheated in Pennsylvania elections with voting machines that were rigged to flip votes. THE FACTS: News that machines in the eastern Pennsylvania county appeared to be “flipping” votes in Tuesday’s election was wildly misrepresented on social media, with users claiming it was proof of fraud in the Keystone State. Voters in Northampton County were asked to decide whether …

Pennsylvania county promises accurate tally after clerical error appears to flip votes for judges
1 year, 1 month ago

Pennsylvania county promises accurate tally after clerical error appears to flip votes for judges

Associated Press  

A voting machine company’s clerical error caused votes in an eastern Pennsylvania county to appear to be flipped on a ballot question that asked whether a pair of incumbent state appeals judges should be retained, officials said Tuesday. The “yes” or “no” votes for each judge were switched on a summary displayed to voters before they cast their ballot, said …

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 …

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 …

3 Pennsylvania counties ordered to count mail-in votes
2 years, 4 months ago

3 Pennsylvania counties ordered to count mail-in votes

Associated Press  

A Pennsylvania judge has ordered three Republican-controlled counties to add about 800 contested mail-in ballots to the results of the May election, ruling in a legal dispute that stalled statewide certification of the primary results for governor and U.S. Senate. Berks, Fayette and Lancaster counties were ordered to count the undated mail-in ballots, and the judge gave the counties 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 …

Judge to rule on hundreds of ballots in limbo since primary
2 years, 4 months ago

Judge to rule on hundreds of ballots in limbo since primary

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge was urged by state lawyers Thursday to order three counties to add some 800 mail-in ballots to their May primary election results, but the local election officials insisted their decisions are firmly rooted in unambiguous state law. The acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman, sued the three counties after they declined to follow her …

Pennsylvania sues 3 counties over counting mail-in ballots
2 years, 5 months ago

Pennsylvania sues 3 counties over counting mail-in ballots

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s elections agency sued three Republican-controlled county governments on Tuesday, seeking to force their election boards to report primary results that include ballots with undated exterior envelopes — the subject of several other lawsuits. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled May 20 that mail-in ballots without a required date on the return envelope must be allowed in a …

Justices allow counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania
2 years, 6 months ago

Justices allow counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time. At the time, former hedge fund CEO David McCormick was locked in a tight contest with celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. McCormick wanted ballots lacking handwritten dates counted …

Court rules on mail ballots as Senate race votes are counted
2 years, 7 months ago

Court rules on mail ballots as Senate race votes are counted

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal court ruled Friday that mail-in ballots without a required date on the return envelope must be allowed in a 2021 Pennsylvania county judge race, a decision that could complicate the ongoing process of vote counting in the state’s neck-and-neck U.S. Senate Republican primary. The three-judge panel’s judgment said the state election law’s requirement of a …

EXPLAINER: How mailed ballots slow results in Pennsylvania
2 years, 7 months ago

EXPLAINER: How mailed ballots slow results in Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Counting of mailed ballots in Pennsylvania is drawing renewed scrutiny amid a too-close-to-call U.S. Senate primary between Republicans David McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz. He has relentlessly criticized the state’s voting procedures since his loss in Pennsylvania two years ago, when it took several days to tally the results from all mailed ballots. The head of the …

Printing errors mar mailed ballots in Oregon, Pennsylvania
2 years, 7 months ago

Printing errors mar mailed ballots in Oregon, Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

Printing mistakes will force local election officials in Pennsylvania and Oregon to redo thousands of mailed ballots, a laborious process that could delay results for some closely contested races in Tuesday’s primaries. “But because of this, we’re not going to have final election results from these mail ballots for probably several days, so that is very, very frustrating to us.” …

Pennsylvania vote counters’ toil to extend into next week
4 years, 1 month ago

Pennsylvania vote counters’ toil to extend into next week

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow but growing margin in the presidential race drew him closer to winning Pennsylvania’s cache of 20 electoral votes Friday as county-by-county teams of ballot counters continued to toil. Tens of thousands of remaining mail-in ballots — as well as the provisional ballots and those cast by military and overseas voters — will decide …

2020 Election Results, News And Analysis
4 years, 1 month ago

2020 Election Results, News And Analysis

NPR  

Pennsylvania: Where The Race Stands Election officials are cautioning that Pennsylvania — and its highly sought-after 20 electoral votes — may not be ready to deliver complete voting results on Wednesday. “This is a stress test of the ideals upon which this country was founded and the basic rule of one person, one vote – that still carries and it …

Missing ballots puzzle western Pennsylvania county officials
4 years, 1 month ago

Missing ballots puzzle western Pennsylvania county officials

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The state’s top elections official said Thursday she wants federal postal authorities to help figure out why some ballots that were mailed out by a western Pennsylvania county have not been delivered to voters. “Regarding mail sorting and delivery in Butler County, the Postal Service is unaware of any significant delays or issues and is in regular …

Pennsylvania polls: Supreme Court allows mail-in ballots to be counted three days after election in swing state
4 years, 2 months ago

Pennsylvania polls: Supreme Court allows mail-in ballots to be counted three days after election in swing state

The Independent  

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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 …

Talks to update Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law show life
4 years, 2 months ago

Talks to update Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law show life

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Closed-door talks on updating Pennsylvania’s fledgling mail-in voting law showed signs of life Wednesday amid warnings that doing nothing will risk a dragged-out vote count in the high-stakes presidential election in the battleground state. House Republicans held an internal conference call to discuss the idea of giving counties four or five days to process mail-in ballots before …

Pennsylvania counties push for changes to mail ballot law
4 years, 2 months ago

Pennsylvania counties push for changes to mail ballot law

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s counties pressed lawmakers and Gov. The debate is happening amid President Donald Trump’s persistent attacks on the legitimacy of mail-in ballots, including his comments Saturday evening in a rally in Pennsylvania that Democrats are “going to try to steal the election.” Demand is rising for mail-in ballots because of the coronavirus, and could surpass 3 million, …

Republicans lose a round in Pennsylvania mail voting dispute
4 years, 3 months ago

Republicans lose a round in Pennsylvania mail voting dispute

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt a blow Thursday to Republicans in the legal fight over the deadline for mailed ballots in the presidential battleground state. The court, which has a 5-2 Democratic majority, rejected without comment a request by Republicans to put on hold its decision to extend the deadline for receiving and counting mail-in ballots. The …

Gray area of mail-in voting law up to Pennsylvania court
4 years, 4 months ago

Gray area of mail-in voting law up to Pennsylvania court

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — With a federal lawsuit from President Donald Trump’s campaign on hold until October, it could be up to Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court to settle crucial questions of election law in the presidential battleground, including whether to count mail-in ballots returned without secrecy envelopes. The Democratic Party’s lawsuit, among other things, asks the courts to order counties to count …

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