Pennsylvania's top court reaffirms mail ballots with missing, improper dates can't be counted
Source: The Hill
11/01/24 6:43 PM ET
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday accepted Republicans request to again declare that mail ballots returned with a missing or incorrect date cannot be counted this election.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed an emergency appeal to ensure that election officials do not leverage a lower courts ruling handed down Wednesday finding such disqualification violates the state constitution.
That 3-2 ruling concerned 69 misdated and undated ballots in a September special election, where the outcome was not in doubt either way.
But Republicans raised concerns the decision injects new uncertainty in the days leading to the presidential election, where potentially thousands of ballots are at stake in the battleground that both campaigns see as a must-win. The courts unsigned order states the lower ruling shall not be applied to the November 5, 2024 General Election.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4966884-pennsylvania-supreme-court-mail-ballots/
This one is for the ballots with missing/wrong dates.
THIS (STATE COURT) IS SEPARATE FROM THE SCOTUS CASE THAT WAS JUST DECIDED. -
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GreenWave
(9,307 posts)Depends on which language you use.
BadgerKid
(4,687 posts)Would resolve the problem.
BumRushDaShow
(143,318 posts)They had the ballot vendor pre-fill the whole year. The other blocks have "Month" and "Day" under each set. It requires that people used to DD-MM-YYYY read carefully and do MM-DD-2024 (latter pre-filled)!
Chrysanthemum
(202 posts)Today the Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania voters with a misdated or undated ballot can fill out a provisional ballot, and have that vote counted.
It's a pain in the butt, but it's the one way to remedy the situation for the November 5 election.