ERIE – After a federal judge recently decided that 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 – the Republican Party’s state and national wings have appealed that decision.
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.
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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.”
ALLENTOWN – After the U.S. Supreme Court declared as moot a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which counted 257 Lehigh County ballots missing the date on their outer envelopes in last year’s general election for a Lehigh County judgeship and remanded the case to its original federal court – plaintiff counsel is now seeking almost $250,000 in attorney’s fees.