ERIE – A federal judge recently decided that per the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act, undated mail-in ballots must be accepted as valid votes by all county boards of election in Pennsylvania – a decision to have tremendous import in next year’s presidential election, which will once again likely see the Keystone State as a battleground.
Voters who submit mail ballots in time for an election, but forget to write a date on them or write the wrong date, must have their ballots counted, a federal judge in western Pennsylvania has ruled.
Mail-in ballots submitted on time but missing a handwritten date must be counted by county elections offices, a federal judge said on Tuesday. To do otherwise would violate the federal Civil Rights Act, said U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter. Her decision followed a lawsuit filed last year against all
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