Siding with a coalition of Republican groups, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled a week before the midterms that mail-in ballots received without a correct date on the outer envelope cannot be counted.
Just a week before the midterms, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state election officials cannot count ballots submitted without a correct date on the outer envelope, siding with a coalition of Republican groups that sued to block undated mail-in ballots.
the six-judge high court ordered election officials to"refrain from counting any absentee and mail-in ballots received for the November 8, 2022 general election that are contained in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes" even if they were received on time, pointing toThe judges—four Democrats and two Republicans—were divided on the question of whether excluding ballots inside improperly dated envelopes would violate federal law, as Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh...
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