Daily News | Pennsylvania updated its voter registration form — and it angered a lot of county elections officials
“It is so exhausting to try to protect voters from elected officials and advocacy groups who just want to screw with them,” said Forrest Lehman, elections director in Lycoming County.The processes for registering to vote and applying for mail ballots have changed in recent years, with two of the biggest changes coming from the rollout ofPeople who apply to vote online have for a while now been given the option to also sign up to use mail ballots.
Other portions of the form were also tweaked, such as the section on gender, which now lists female, male and non-binary or other.When it comes to elections, small things can have big and sometimes unexpected effects. Now, county officials worry, the voter registration form will create more confusion. What if well-meaning third-party groups check that box when sending pre-filled forms to voters?
For example, what if someone submits the form after the voter registration deadline but before the later mail ballot application deadline? State officials told counties Monday to treat the two as separate, but that can create logistical problems if a voter moved from another county or voter registrations are processed at a different office from mail ballot requests.
“It would be worthwhile for them, for the Department of State, to seek some kind of declaratory judgment. … Go into court and say, “Judges, this is what we want to do, give us an opinion, yea or nay,’” he said.
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