Pennsylvania Supreme Court Orders Undated, Wrongly Dated Ballots to Not Be Counted

 The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered counties to not count any ballots that are in undated or incorrectly dated envelopes in the upcoming Nov. 8 elections

• The decision was split 3-3 on whether not counting these ballots would violate 52 US Code section 10101 (a)(2)(B), a voting provision under the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Chief Justice Debra Todd, and Justices Christine Donohue and David Wecht-all Democrats-would find a violation of federal law if ballots were thrown out based on requiring a date, the court order states.

Republicans Sought Expedited Review

• The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the individual petitioners from the case due to lack of standing, while determining that the RNC, NRCC, and the Pennsylvania GOP have standing
• Pennsylvania state law requires that voters handwrite a date on the outer envelope when they send in mail ballots.
• However, the date that's handwritten on the envelope is not used to verify whether a ballot has been received on time for the election, because the ballots are supposed to be time-stamped when they arrive at county offices

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