'Recent actions by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have set Pennsylvania up to be the subject of significant post-election legal controversy,' Philadelphia City Commissioner Lisa Deeley wrote.
"At the time of my first letter, my arguments were based on my hope that we could implement a more streamlined process, and an effort to avoid voter confusion," Deeley wrote.
, concerning"naked ballots," or ballots returned to the county boards of elections in a declaration envelope instead of being enclosed in an inner"secrecy envelope." The court ordered that naked ballots should be thrown out. "Since the board voted to count the naked ballots towards the beginning of the process, the total number of said ballots we received for the June 2020 Primary were not tracked, and the exact count is unknown," Deeley wrote. She added that in 2019 the board received 3,086 absentee ballots, and 6.4 percent, or 197, were considered naked ballots.
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