Posted on 09/13/2024 4:14:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision on Friday, ruling that mail ballots must have the correct date on them to be counted.
Last month, a lower court ruled that the commonwealth cannot throw out mail-in ballots just because they have incorrect handwritten dates on the envelopes.
The decision was tossed out by Pennsylvania's highest court on Friday, after the Republican National Committee and Pennsylvania GOP appealed, arguing that not all of the counties were included as plaintiffs in the original lawsuit. The ruling was made on jurisdictional grounds, not the merits of the case.
“The Commonwealth Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review the matter given the failure to name the county boards of elections of all 67 counties,” the court wrote in its order Friday.
The ACLU and Public Interest Law Center argued the case on behalf of a voting rights groups coalition, claiming that the requirement to have a correct date on a mail-in ballot violates the state constitution.
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where were they in 2020?
didn’t seem to matter to them then!
We will take any victory that we can.
How “un-American” (total sarc here)
And the Michigan Supreme Court just ruled that RFK Jr’s name must remain on the ballot.Election fraud.
BFD. Anyone can put any date they want on the ballot. If they are referring to POSTMARK date, that is a different issue.
I think PA might be trending Trump. Why else did the Harris team fight hard to keep RFK Jr on the Michigan ballot and succeeded?
Hah! I’ll sleep better now. The Steal 2.0 is already in the books.
ONCE the ballot is removed from the envelope-—WHO CAN TELL WHAT ???
Not to fear....all those dates will be the same written with the same pen.
What about hand-written dates that have clearly been altered, or having been crossed out and rewritten?
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW THE MAILED BALLOTS PUT IN REGULAR ENVELOPES WOULD NOT BE CREASED. WE SAW THEM COUNTING SUCH ON CAMERA LAST TIME.
NOT A CREASE IN SIGHT.
>The ACLU and Public Interest Law Center argued the case on behalf of a voting rights groups coalition, claiming that the requirement to have a correct date on a mail-in ballot violates the state constitution.<
WHERE DOES THAT SAY THAT?
THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT..
SLIPPED MY MEMORY.
Did you have cap lock? I did, darn it! I was not yelling ;-)
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This is a VERY PLEASANT, but UNEXPECTED, SURPRISE. Jeez, the rule of law actually prevailed and not some politically motivated extra legal judicial fiat.
PA Supreme Court rules mail ballots must have correct date to be counted
I hate badly written headlines. As noted the Court did not rule that they have to have the correct date. They ruled that the lower court did not correctly rule and thus their ruling is not valid. The issue has not been finally adjudicated in Pennsylvania.
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