Lehigh County officials could start opening and counting 257 undated mail-in ballots from the November 2021 election as soon as Monday following a Thursday decision by the U.S. Supreme Court involving a county judge’s race.
Mail-in ballots that are not dated must be counted, a federal appeals court said in an opinion that says this is exactly the type of disenfranchisement that Congress sought to prevent.
Pennsylvania is experiencing a constitutional conundrum. State legislators, primarily Republicans, have proposed nearly 80 constitutional amendments in the last year, many on politically contentious issues ranging from abortion to voter identification. The allure of these amendments, which don’t need the governor’s signature, among Republicans is instigating growing distress among elected
ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has denied an attempt by five local voters to secure a preliminary injunction to prevent the certification of results from November’s general election by the Lehigh County Board of Elections, since the plaintiffs’ votes were set to be discarded due to their signatures lacking an accompanying date.
ALLENTOWN – A quintet of local plaintiffs whose mail-in votes from November’s general election were set to be discarded due to their signatures lacking an accompanying date have sued the Lehigh County Board of Elections in federal court, seeking an emergency preliminary injunction to prevent the certification of the results.