The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time after Lehigh County residents sued to have their votes counted in a 2021 judicial race.
After a report alleging Republican State Sen. Jake Corman was set on withdrawing form the Pennsylvania governor race came out on Tuesday, Corman released a statement later in the day
Jake Corman, president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania State Senate, will allegedly withdrawal from the primary election and end his Republican campaign for Pennsylvania governor, according to a report by
By Gordon Plate
Jim Brewster was reelected in the 45th Pennsylvania Senate District, winning the election by 69 votes. The challenger, Nicole Ziccarelli, opposed the seating of Brewster on the grounds that different counties applied different standards to the mail-in votes Allegheny County counted ballots missing a date on the outer envelope, while Westmoreland County did not count ballots that were missing a date.
Apparently, the commonwealth’s directions on how to fill out the Pennsylvania mail-in ballot are being misinterpreted by different counties. Researching official websites did not help clear up the matter for this writer, as one did not mention recording the date, while another did.