A legal saga over mail-in ballots that arrive on time — but in envelopes that are missing dates handwritten by voters — could determine midterm results in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.
filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania on behalf of the Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP and other groups is now trying to stop local election officials from rejecting what are often called"undated ballots."
But it's an open legal question whether a vote can be disqualified for missing that handwritten date, which election officials have not used to verify whether a person is allowed to vote. In past elections, counties have also included mail-in ballots with incorrect dates in their final vote tallies.the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued Tuesday.
More federal lawsuits may be coming, especially if there are any tight races that may ultimately be determined by small margins of votes.Why is it not clear yet whether it's legal to count undated ballots? This May, a federal court ordered undated ballots to be included in the final count of a 2021 race for a judge position in Pennsylvania's Lehigh County.But last month, the U.S. Supreme Court
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