The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a lower court’s ruling that Pennsylvania’s dating requirement for mail-in ballots violated a federal voting rights law. The ruling, in which the high court vacated a May U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals decision without issuing an opinion, sets the stage for further litigation in state court over Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail law, lawyers in the case said.
The Supreme Court ruling overturned an appeals court decision which stated that the state election law's requirement of a date next to the voter's signature on the outside of return envelopes was "immaterial."
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania’s top-ranking state elections official said Tuesday a new U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding how rules for the state’s mail-in ballots had been applied in a county judge e.