Posted on 08/20/2022 3:40:36 AM PDT by Libloather
A Pennsylvania judge ordered three counties to count undated mail ballots in their certified results for the primary election, breaking a standoff between those counties and the Department of State.
“[T]he lack of a handwritten date on the declaration on the return envelope of a timely received absentee or mail-ballot does not support excluding those ballots from the Boards’ certified results under both Pennsylvania law and … the [federal] Civil Rights Act,” Commonwealth Court President Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer wrote Friday.
The ruling marked a significant victory for the state and proponents of counting undated mail ballots, as Cohn Jubelirer went further than in a previous opinion to say that state and federal law protect the counting of the undated ballots. In fact, she said, previous court decisions were based on a different set of known facts and also not precedential.
If it stands, that change could mean hundreds or even thousands of additional votes could be counted in future elections.
Berks, Fayette, and Lancaster Counties had been locked in a stalemate with the Pennsylvania Department of State over whether to count undated mail ballots. The disagreement has delayed certification of the May 17 primary for months.
Cohn Jubelirer ordered the counties to count the undated mail ballots and include them in new certified totals “as soon as possible” and no later than Wednesday.
Fayette County officials were reviewing the decision Friday “for the purposes of considering an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court,” said Thomas W. King III, a lawyer for the county. Lancaster County officials declined to comment, and a Berks County spokesperson said that county had not yet decided Friday whether it would appeal.
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We are no longer a republic.
The law is whatever Deep State says it is.
From June. Our Deep State controlled SCOTUS has already given this **** its rubber stamp of approval...
My question is there still a documented date recieved by law?
Is this only a date on the ballot by the voter? Not a date the ballot was recieved?
I believe the former, not the latter.
We are SO OVER!! Our Judges are all PSTUPID and CORRUPT!
The STEAL is fixated upon us.
It makes you think that all of these government regulations that expect us to sign and date everything we do might be unconstitutional.
There is a received date. This is not a seal. The date they’re talking about is absolutely unnecessary.
Election fraud as a matter of policy. Democracy is doomed.
Yes - Let's keep the FRAUD going!!
The important date is the postal date on the outside envelope.
Mail in ballots, except for those where it is physically impossible to go to a polling station, invite election theft.
You know what this site needs, more hysterical posters...
Dishonesty at the highest levels.
Honestly the state should mail a card to every mail in voter that the ballot was recieved, on a specific date, so that they know the post office did its job.
Does this mean Oz is no longer???
Oh my God it’s probably means that the dark horse named St.Kathy is gonna lose again. It’s been our strategy vote for Doug screw the Dr Oz. Fetterman drops dead of a heart attack and Doug appoints St Kathy. Kathy we will always love you hugs and kisses.
Way down in the article.
What’s the point of even having a law if judges rule like this? Why even bother with an election?
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