Federal appeals court rules Pennsylvania must only count mail ballots with dates, signatures

[Geee]

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that Pennsylvania may enforce state law requiring envelopes for mail-in ballots to be dated and include the voter's signature.

 

In Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Chapman, the plaintiff sued the then-acting secretary of the commonwealth in 2022 regarding Pennsylvania’s decision to void mail-in ballots that are either missing a date on the outer return envelopes or have an incorrect date.

Pennsylvania counties were ordered by a lower court following a Republican lawsuit in 2022 to reject undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots. The issue was then appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. 

The NAACP argued that the mail-in ballots are valid – regardless of the incorrect or missing date – and should be counted. 

[SDwaters]

1 hour ago, Geee said:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that Pennsylvania may enforce state law requiring envelopes for mail-in ballots to be dated and include the voter's signature.

 

The worrisome part is the word "may".  Given our hard left Governor and Secretary of the Commonwealth, that's enough wiggle room to let the faulty ballots through.  

In 2020, my precinct saw multiple people have to submit "provisional" ballots because, according to the records, they (or someone pretending to be them) had already voted by mail.