Ef-man
11-07-2022, 11:51 PM
Per CNN:
The question of whether mailed ballots with incorrect or missing dates can be counted is one of the hottest voting disputes in the pivotal state leading up to Election Day, and a divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ordered counties to refrain from counting mailed ballots with missing or invalid dates on their outer envelopes.
Earlier Monday, a judge in Monroe County in Northeast Pennsylvania decided that election officials could notify the few hundred voters there whose mail-in ballots were submitted with errors, to give them a chance to correct them.
The judge, Arthur Zulick, noted that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hadn’t gone as far as to say whether ballots with missing dates should be thrown out entirely, or could be corrected by Election Day.
The area’s Republican Party had sued to prevent the voter outreach. The case was one of the latest standoffs at the local level in Pennsylvania interpreting how to handle defective mailed-in ballots.
The question of whether mailed ballots with incorrect or missing dates can be counted is one of the hottest voting disputes in the pivotal state leading up to Election Day, and a divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ordered counties to refrain from counting mailed ballots with missing or invalid dates on their outer envelopes.
Earlier Monday, a judge in Monroe County in Northeast Pennsylvania decided that election officials could notify the few hundred voters there whose mail-in ballots were submitted with errors, to give them a chance to correct them.
The judge, Arthur Zulick, noted that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hadn’t gone as far as to say whether ballots with missing dates should be thrown out entirely, or could be corrected by Election Day.
The area’s Republican Party had sued to prevent the voter outreach. The case was one of the latest standoffs at the local level in Pennsylvania interpreting how to handle defective mailed-in ballots.