Pennsylvania voters could have their mail-in ballots thrown out if they do not write accurate dates on envelopes they use to return them under a state Supreme Court ruling issued Friday that could impact the presidential race. The state's high court ruled on procedural grounds, saying a lower ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal appeals court must decide if Pennsylvania voters need to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots for the votes to count, a dispute with implications for this year's presidential contest. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of App...
Pennsylvania is the first and only state that will disqualify ballots received without a required secrecy envelope while giving voters no recourse to fix the mistake.
also in Luzerne County. The state of Pennsylvania requires aspecial formto drop off a ballot for someone who has a disability. The woman did not provide any such forms, attempted to deposit the ballots anyway and
In the Pennsylvania case, the state Supreme Courtsplit 4-3in upholding a lower court ruling that required the counting of provisional ballots submitted by voters who are told their mail ballots can’t be counted. “Provisional ballots exist as a failsafe to preserve acc...
the latest in four years of litigation over voting by mail in Pennsylvania, where every vote truly counts in presidential races. Republicans have sought in dozens of court cases to push the strictest possible interpretation for throwing out mail-in ballots, which are predominantly cast by ...
Split High Court Rejects Pennsylvania GOP, Allows Late Ballots Greg Stohr Bloomberg News An evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court allowed a three-day extension for the receipt of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, giving Democrats a boost in a state that could determine the presidential election. ...
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said at a press conference Wednesday that the state has counted nearly 50% of its mail-in ballots, with millions more to go. Upwards of 3 million mail-in absentee ballots were cast in the Keystone State – a 10-fold increase over previous ...
That's more than 10 times as many as voted by mail in the 2016 presidential election, when Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton by a mere 44,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point. Polls show another close race between Democrat Joe Biden and Trump in Pennsylvania. ...
- Pennsylvania's highest court on Wednesday said people whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law can cast provisional ballots, a decision sure to affect some of the thousands of mail-in votes likely to be rejected this fall. The Supreme Court ru...