Policies on date requirement and ‘notice and cure’ policies stay unchanged after voting rights groups and Republicans lose their bid for emergency intervention.
Does the date requirement violate the state constitution? The ACLU and the Public Interest Law Center want a definitive ruling before the November election.
The decision, focusing on the court’s jurisdiction rather than the case’s merits, could cause thousands of mail ballots to be rejected in November’s election.
The errors — which users encounter when they search for their municipality and street name — affect as many as 85,000 of the state’s 8.9 million voters, a Votebeat and Spotlight PA analysis found.
The Commonwealth Court ruling says Butler County voters whose mail ballots were rejected were entitled to have their provisional ballots counted.
“We want [all voters’] votes to count, we want their voices to be heard, and we don’t think that minor technical mistakes on mail-in ballot envelopes should prevent access to voting,” said Public Interest Law Center’s Mimi McKenzie.
The Republicans cast ballots and signed an ‘alternative’ certificate for Trump, as if he had won the popular vote. Would they do it again? Poprik told Votebeat she would.
The ACLU and Department of State argued in Commonwealth Court that election officials don’t use the handwritten dates on ballot envelopes for anything. GOP lawyers say it’s a tool against fraud.
The Justice Department has policies to prevent investigations from being politicized, especially during an election year. The inspector general’s report highlights how breaches of these policies can snowball into false and exaggerated claims of election fraud.
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.
“Anyone who visited Starbucks at 2896 S. Eagle Road in Newtown between 10:50 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on March 19 should monitor for symptoms,” the Bucks County Health Department warns.
“These bills will protect health care coverage for Pennsylvanians, regardless of what happens at the federal level,” said state Rep. Perry Warren.
