Pennsylvania high court declines to decide mail-in ballot issues before election

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2. Well some Counties have stepped out their outreach and reminders

and in our case in Philly, actually redesigned the envelope so you can't miss where to sign and even where to put the date (with the year already pre-filled out)!

We did run into an issue here in Philly when they started sending the ballots out, where due to about a week or so of overcast/drizzling weather, some people were receiving mail ballots that had ballot envelopes (both the secrecy one and mailing one) that ended up "sealed" due to the moisture. They have told those who experienced that to bring their ballot packet to a satellite office to get a replacement (the city has been opening what will be "permanent" election offices, one per Councilmanic District, to make it easier).

This issue has been in some sort of litigation since 2020, with the most recent argument being that a date has no real value to the casting of the vote as the ballots are postmarked when mailed or probably date/time-stamped when turned into an election office.