US EditionPennsylvania high court to take up long-running dispute over mail-in ballots’ return envelope dates
- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will reconsider the requirement for voters to write the accurate date on mail-in ballot return envelopes to ensure they are counted.
- This dating rule has led to multiple court cases, with lower courts ruling it unconstitutional to discard ballots without a handwritten date.
- Democrats and voting rights groups argue that the dating requirement is a meaningless clerical issue that leads to ballot rejections.
- The case involves 69 mail-in ballots from two state house special elections, which a judge ruled should be counted despite missing dates.
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Pa. high court to take up long-running dispute over mail-in ballots
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Friday it will again consider whether voters should have to write the accurate date on return envelopes used to send their completed mail-in ballots to be counted.
Pa. Supreme Court to take up dispute over mail-in ballots' return envelope dates
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will again consider whether voters should have to write the accurate date on return envelopes used to send their completed mail-in ballots to be counted.
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Pennsylvania high court to take up long-running dispute over mail-in ballots' return envelope dates
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Friday it will again consider whether voters should have to write the accurate date on return envelopes used to send their completed mail-in
Pa. Supreme Court takes case over undated mail ballots
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Pennsylvania’s free newsletter here.What happened? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Friday that it will take up a case, Baxter v. Philadelphia, on whether requiring voters to date mail ballot envelopes violates the state constitution.What’s the dispute? Pennsylvania’s 2019 no-excuse mail voting law, Act 77, say…
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