[lightman]

The Supreme Court’s action on Tuesday means that the 3rd Circuit ruling cannot be used as a precedent in the three states covered by this regional federal appellate court—Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware—to allow the counting of ballots with minor flaws such as the voter failing to fill in the date.

[jdsteel]

“However, Pennsylvania law stipulates that voters are mandated to write the date on the outer envelope on their mail-in ballot.”

IIRC it is the Pennsylvania constitution that specifies that the date must be on the outer envelope.

[catnipman]

full article

https://archive.ph/a9Hzz

[jmaroneps37]

This is huge!!!!!! It will help in New Jersey because there are winnable races there. Delaware doesn’t allow mail-in ballots for the most part.

[nicollo]

The Third Circus didn’t rule that the signature requirement was a “meaningless technicality,” but that it violated the Civil Rights Act by denying the right to vote based on an immaterial error or omission unrelated to the voter’s qualifications.

Pathetic, contorted legalism. Sadly, the Supreme Court’s invalidation of it does not invalidate that legal theory, just its precedence.

[cdnerds]

This means nothing, the SOS of PA already said they are counting every ballot regardless of what SCOTUS said.