Mail-in and absentee ballots that arrive on time will still be counted in Pennsylvania even if the ballot has an incorrect or missing date. That’s the decision handed down by U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter on Tuesday.
Pennsylvania groups represented by the American Civil Liberties Union brought the suit to federal court, challenging a 2019 Pennsylvania election law.
“Under Pennsylvania law it has the mandatory word “shall” be dated,” said John E. Jones III, president of Dickinson College and a former U.S. district judge.
In her decision, Baxter found one federal law overrules Pennsylvania’s state law.
Jones said the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allows broad voting rights aimed to prevent disenfranchisement.
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Is this judge a Democrat?
Hit 200k today. I'm really grateful for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 14k in June 2022
Pennsylvania is still a corrupt
There should be a law making mail ballots unlawful to easy to steal votes
(c)Deadline.–Except as provided under 25 Pa.C.S. 3511 (relating to receipt of voted ballot), a completed mail-in ballot must be received in the office of the county board of elections no later than eight o'clock p.m. on the day of the primary or election
25 P.S. § 3150.16
We really need to get the nazis(republicans) out of voting matters.