The stakes of an accurate yet swift ballot count couldn’t be higher because each day that unofficial election results are delayed could breed conspiracy theories about the outcome.
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 Bucks County Sheriff’s office has an application pending to participate in ICE’s 287(g) “task force model”, which essentially makes local law enforcement officers de facto ICE agents.
There were hundreds of rallies and protests against the Trump Administration across the country Saturday.
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
Elon Musk has called on the FBI to investigate ActBlue and recently called Indivisible criminals.
“That’s my only means to commute,” said Antonio Deleon, a 38-year-old disabled Levittown resident who lives on a fixed income. He uses it to get to class and for volunteer work in Philadelphia.
