Pennsylvania court stops incorrectly dated mail-in votes from being thrown out

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Pennsylvania court stops incorrectly dated mail-in votes from being thrown out
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to include accurate, handwritten dates on the will likely save thousands of ballots from being thrown out because of violations.

The court ruled 4-1 that tossing out voters’ ballots violates the state constitution’s clause that addresses “free and equal” elections. Judge Patricia McCullough was the only judge to dissent, saying that the majority showed “a wholesale abandonment of common sense,” ignored more than a century of legal precedent, and rewrote the 2019 state law that expanded mail-in voting.

Several Democratic Party groups joined the lawsuit, and Gov. Josh Shapiro posted on X that the ruling was “a victory for Pennsylvanians’ fundamental right to vote.” The case was first brought against the secretary of state and the election boards in Philadelphia and Allegheny County.

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