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Federal appeals court rules Pennsylvania must only count mail ballots with dates, signatures
Just the News ^ | 3/27/24 | By Natalia Mittelstadt

Posted on 03/28/2024 2:25:22 AM PDT by CFW

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that Pennsylvania may enforce state law requiring envelopes for mail-in ballots to be dated and include the voter's signature.

In Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Chapman, the plaintiff sued the then-acting secretary of the commonwealth in 2022 regarding Pennsylvania’s decision to void mail-in ballots that are either missing a date on the outer return envelopes or have an incorrect date.

Pennsylvania counties were ordered by a lower court following a Republican lawsuit in 2022 to reject undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots. The issue was then appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

The NAACP argued that the mail-in ballots are valid – regardless of the incorrect or missing date – and should be counted.

In the November 2022 election, 10,000 mail-in ballots weren't accepted because they had incorrect or missing dates.

On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the circuit court ruled that the state law be enforced.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: ballots; election; fraud; mailinballot; mailinballots; pa; pennsylvania
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Excellent ruling in PA.
1 posted on 03/28/2024 2:25:22 AM PDT by CFW
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In 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that ballots received after 8 oclock on election day couldn’t be counted.

They commingled and counted them anyway.


2 posted on 03/28/2024 2:27:28 AM PDT by cotton1706
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Yep. I remember that well. The fraud in the 2020 election will not be forgotten by conservative voters.

In other election news:

“Wyoming Supreme Court dismisses appeal in Trump ballot case”

https://www.thecentersquare.com/wyoming/article_8025deee-ec55-11ee-a67b-434f8307bff2.html

“(The Center Square) – The Wyoming Supreme Court this week dismissed an appeal in a case attempting to keep former President Donald Trump off the state’s ballot.

The case, brought by attorney Tim Newcomb, was dismissed in district court in January, but appealed to the state Supreme Court. Newcomb sought to keep Trump off the ballot because of the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, citing the 14th Amendment.

“I have been working hard to keep President Trump on the ballot,” Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray said in a statement. “I’m extremely pleased with the Wyoming Supreme Court’s dismissal of Mr. Newcomb’s outrageously wrong lawsuit.””


3 posted on 03/28/2024 2:30:51 AM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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Jeeze, a morsel of sense has crawled it’s way back into the American govt?


4 posted on 03/28/2024 2:34:08 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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Excellent ruling in PA.

Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."

Here's the Philadelphia version of that statement: "It's not the people who mail mail-in ballots; it's the democrats at the county election board who make invalid democrat ballots valid - and make valid republican ballots invalid.

5 posted on 03/28/2024 2:42:05 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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I remember the post office being caught back-dating late election envelopes.


6 posted on 03/28/2024 2:44:09 AM PDT by ryderann
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This will be treated like the student loan ruling from SCOTUS. The Demon Rat party will ignore it.


7 posted on 03/28/2024 2:44:33 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: JesusIsLord

With electronic voting machines, which PA uses you don’t even need people, do you.

And high tech is the only way to steal a landslide.


8 posted on 03/28/2024 2:50:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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So, Natalie...is it “must” or “may”?

Big difference.


9 posted on 03/28/2024 2:50:55 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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Correction: Natalia...


10 posted on 03/28/2024 2:51:33 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: mewzilla
From last year...

Pa. will track voting machine malfunctions under new settlement with election security groups The Pa. Department of State has reached an agreement with advocates after they raised concerns in 2019 about a voting machine that glitched in its first year.

Glitches.

SNORT.

11 posted on 03/28/2024 2:52:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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It is hard to imagine a PA court actually enforcing PA law without trying to change the law.

More lawsuits from the looney left


12 posted on 03/28/2024 2:57:15 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: CFW

So, the National Association of Angry Colored People doesn’t mind cheating in elections?


13 posted on 03/28/2024 3:13:01 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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The call went out to the DNC and their minions. “Make sure there is a signature and date on all of those ballots you’ve harvested.” Problem solved.


14 posted on 03/28/2024 3:25:16 AM PDT by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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The NAACP argued that the mail-in ballots are valid – regardless of the incorrect or missing date – and should be counted.

Do they also argue that checks with missing or incorrect dates should be considered valid? What about checks without signatures?

These are the same people who agree with the democRat party in general that minorities are too stupid or lazy to acquire photo ID to establish their identity when voting.

15 posted on 03/28/2024 3:36:29 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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Signature verification is a terrible way to keep track of legitimate vote. They should have to put their drivers license number or some other identifying number that would prevent fraud.


16 posted on 03/28/2024 3:43:28 AM PDT by Mustangman
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Of course the Commonwealth will appeal it because...Orange Man Bad.


17 posted on 03/28/2024 3:50:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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I won’t hold my breath. I remember Voter I.D. passed and was the law in the Spring one year sometime ago. Less than a month before elections that year, it was overturned or stalled somehow in court. And we’ve never gotten it back.


18 posted on 03/28/2024 3:57:37 AM PDT by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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True, but unless it’s enforced, it’s meaningless.

I would like to see these things enforced instead of just lip service.


19 posted on 03/28/2024 4:12:16 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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“Everyone knows” that some minorities are too stupid to know what day it is. It’s racist to prevent them from voting. This must be appealed to the Supreme Court! /s


20 posted on 03/28/2024 4:29:24 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage
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