ERIE – Two county boards of election have opposed litigation from six voters’ rights groups against acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh M. Chapman and all of the county boards of election statewide, in order to compel officials to accept undated mail-in ballots and “not disenfranchise voters based on an immaterial paperwork error.”
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that, under the premise of statutory indemnification, the City of Pittsburgh cannot be compelled to pay a civil judgment to a local man beaten by an off-duty police officer a decade ago, as the officer was not acting within his official “scope of employment” when the assault transpired.
ERIE – Six voters’ rights groups have launched litigation against acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh M. Chapman and all of the county boards of election statewide, in order to compel official to accept undated mail-in ballots and “not disenfranchise voters based on an immaterial paperwork error.”
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered that election officials to not count any mail-in or absentee ballots that arrive in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes during the upcoming election.