The decision will allow Pennsylvanians to make sure their vote is counted in the battleground state, even if their mail-in ballot is not.
, a hub for reporting, analysis, and commentary about state courts and constitutions. State Court Report is a project of the Brennan Center for Justice.citizens have a right to vote by provisional ballot if their mail-in ballot is disqualified for a failure to return it in the required secrecy envelope.
Since 2020, the Republican National Committee and Republican politicians have repeatedly challenged laws and policies that expand access to vote-by-mail or sought to disqualify ballots that have some sort of procedural error. In this election cycle, Republicans or Republican-affiliated organizations have filed more than 20 lawsuits in state or federal court relating to voting by mail, according to the.
Though the holding only specifically addresses Butler County and the plaintiff voters, the analysis may be read broadly to encompass other disqualifying errors beyond forgetting the secrecy envelope, including failing properly to sign or write the date on the mail-ballot’s outer envelope.
Despite the somewhat small percentage of mail-in ballots likely to be disqualified, the stakes of these lawsuits are high given the narrow margins on which this election could be
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