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BREAKING: HUGE NEWS May Have Given Kamala Harris Pennsylvania...
Pennsylvania Counties Must Count Undated and Misdated Mail-in Ballots, Court Rules
In a 4-1 ruling, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court blocked enforcement of a law requiring election officials to reject otherwise valid mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect handwritten dates on their outer return envelopes.
The battleground state’s contested handwritten date requirement resulted in the disqualification of over 10,000 mail-in ballots during the 2022 midterm elections alone and several thousand more during the 2024 presidential primary.
Accordingly, today’s ruling stands to ensure that thousands of mail-in ballots won’t be tossed out in the upcoming presidential election.
“The refusal to count undated or incorrectly dated but timely mail ballots submitted by otherwise eligible voters because of meaningless and inconsequential paperwork errors violates the fundamental right to vote recognized in the free and equal elections clause,” the opinion reads.
Today’s decision stems from a state-level lawsuit filed in May by Black Political Empowerment Project and other nonprofit organizations seeking to stop Pennsylvania’s 67 counties from enforcing the state’s handwritten date rule for mail-in ballots. The lawsuit was the first to ever challenge the handwritten date rule as a violation of the right to vote provided by the Pennsylvania Constitution.
Some of the plaintiff organizations are also involved in a parallel legal action — which is ongoing in federal court — alleging that tossing mail-in ballots based solely on date issues runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution. A federal judge initially ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and held that the rejection of mail-in ballots based on missing or incorrect dates contravenes a provision of the Civil Rights Act, but the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that decision.
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BREAKING: HUGE NEWS May Have Given Kamala Harris Pennsylvania...
Pennsylvania Counties Must Count Undated and Misdated Mail-in Ballots, Court Rules
In a 4-1 ruling, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court blocked enforcement of a law requiring election officials to reject otherwise valid mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect handwritten dates on their outer return envelopes.
The battleground state’s contested handwritten date requirement resulted in the disqualification of over 10,000 mail-in ballots during the 2022 midterm elections alone and several thousand more during the 2024 presidential primary.
Accordingly, today’s ruling stands to ensure that thousands of mail-in ballots won’t be tossed out in the upcoming presidential election.
“The refusal to count undated or incorrectly dated but timely mail ballots submitted by otherwise eligible voters because of meaningless and inconsequential paperwork errors violates the fundamental right to vote recognized in the free and equal elections clause,” the opinion reads.
Today’s decision stems from a state-level lawsuit filed in May by Black Political Empowerment Project and other nonprofit organizations seeking to stop Pennsylvania’s 67 counties from enforcing the state’s handwritten date rule for mail-in ballots. The lawsuit was the first to ever challenge the handwritten date rule as a violation of the right to vote provided by the Pennsylvania Constitution.
Some of the plaintiff organizations are also involved in a parallel legal action — which is ongoing in federal court — alleging that tossing mail-in ballots based solely on date issues runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution. A federal judge initially ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and held that the rejection of mail-in ballots based on missing or incorrect dates contravenes a provision of the Civil Rights Act, but the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that decision.
democracydocket.com/news-alerts/pennsylvania-counties-cant-toss-out-mail-in-ballots-due-to-incomplete-or-missing-dates-commonwealth-court-rules
#kamalaharris #harris #kamala #kamala2024 #harris2024 #kamalaharris2024 #news #politics #progressivevoice #theprogressivevoice #trump #donaldtrump
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Donate: paypal.me/theprogressivevoice
Listen to the audio podcast format on Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-progressive-voice/id1265065271?mt=2
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