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Posted on 09/13/2024 2:22:42 PM PDT by DFG
Pennsylvanians’ mail ballots must have a proper date on their envelopes or they will be rejected, under a decision Friday from the state Supreme Court that could affect thousands of voters this November.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated a Commonwealth Court ruling from Aug. 30 that found the state’s requirement on ballot dating was an unconstitutional violation of voters’ rights.
Republicans who appealed that decision argued to the state Supreme Court last week that plaintiffs failed to include all counties as parties to the case, among other claims. The original suit, brought by the ACLU and Public Interest Law Center on behalf of a coalition of voting rights groups, targeted the Department of State, Allegheny County, and Philadelphia.
The Supreme Court ruled on jurisdictional grounds, not on the merits of the underlying claim, meaning this argument could be made again.
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Sounds like good news on the surface, hope it is.
How likely are certain PA districts to just the ruling?
They need to take it to the Supreme Court.
Time for the DOJ to meddle in this.
We need to can this whole mail in ballot thing.
Go to the polls on Election Day and vote in person…. with ID!
I’m voting in person early. I’m not taking any chance of the machines breaking down or running out of ink or paper.
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For the last 20 years our voting location on election day was the same church, about 5 miles from my home. After the 2020 scam and readjustment our voting location is now 20 miles east of town in a tiny town with an old 100 year old school house. Pain to vote on election day. Will do early voting.
If nothing else it means they’ll have to take the extra step of stamping the envelopes at the post office before delivering them.
No lawyer but I think that now that this is part of case law, it can serve as a lever in similar cases in other jurisdictions.
Yup.
Bump!!!
Where we live, we sign and date the envelope, and that information is covered, so someone would have to uncover the date/signature before it was delivered. That would be prosecutable. If Pennsylvania has a similar system, it would be monumental for the Post Office to check every envelope for proper dates. And even if they did that, it is up to the voter to properly date the envelope - not the Post Office.
Pennsylvanians’ mail ballots must have a proper date on their envelopes or they will be rejected... /loud cheers
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