Cohen is 74 votes behind Republican David Ritter in the race for one of the three seats on Lehigh County’s Common Pleas Court. The 257 undated ballots in question could tip the race’s outcome in Cohen’s favor.
A lawyer for Democrat Zachary Cohen filed a petition for appeal Friday asking the state’s highest court to review a 2-1 decision by a panel of three Commonwealth Court judges this week that 261 undated mail-in ballots in Lehigh County should be discarded.
A Commonwealth Court panel has reversed a Lehigh County judge's decision on vote-by-mail ballots with missing dates, ruling that the votes should not be counted in a case that could affect the outcome of a close race for county judge.