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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a legal bid from two Republican legislators to alter existing rules about where voters can return their completed absentee ballots for tabulation.
A coalition of ten voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Wednesday asking the PA Supreme Court to stop enforcement of a state law that requires voters to include a handwritten date on the return envelope of their mail-in ballots.
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court affirmed a lower court’s decision requiring Washington County to notify voters of errors on their mail-in ballots and afford them an opportunity to cast provisional ballots at the polls this November.
The RNC filed a lawsuit on Friday against election officials in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, accusing the county of starting their election process without fully testing voting equipment.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a petition in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday arguing that voters who make mistakes on mail-in ballots shouldn’t be allowed to cure their ballots or vote using a provisional ballot on Election Day.
Provisional ballots cast in Pennsylvania elections without a required signature will not be counted, the state Supreme Court ruled.
In a 4-3 order issued today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated a Commonwealth Court decision that would have required counties in the battleground state to count mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect handwritten dates on their outer return envelopes.
This morning, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that Butler County must count provisional ballots cast at a polling place from voters who inadvertently submitted mail-in ballots without an inner secrecy envelope — also known as “naked ballots.”
The Republican National Committee sent letters to the secretaries of six swing states, urging them to monitor Vot-ER, a civic health organization helping to register voters in healthcare settings.
A state judge on Friday ordered Fulton County, Pennsylvania and its attorney to pay over $1 million in sanctions after improperly investigating Dominion Voting Systems machines after the 2020 election and violating an order from the state’s highest court.