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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.
In a 4-1 ruling, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court blocked enforcement of a law requiring election officials to reject otherwise valid mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect handwritten dates on their outer return envelopes.
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court last Friday rejected a lawsuit from two Republican legislators seeking to upend state laws governing where voters must return their completed absentee ballots to be tallied.
Washington County, Pennsylvania’s board of elections must inform voters of errors on their mail-in ballots and allow them an opportunity to cast provisional ballots at the polls in the upcoming November election, a judge ruled on Friday.
For a second time, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from Fulton County, Pennsylvania’s board of elections and two Republican county commissioners over the use of Dominion voting machines in the 2020 election.
An executive order issued in 2021 by President Biden to promote voter registration is still drawing rebuke from GOP-led states in court.
A Pennsylvania voting rights group announced today that it would dismiss its lawsuit contesting the rejection of mail-in ballots due to dates on outer return envelopes that were missing the final two digits of the year 2024.
United Sovereign Americans (USA), the nascent right-wing group that’s organizing to disrupt voter rolls across the country, is suing Pennsylvania officials over the state’s voter roll maintenance and voting system accuracy.
A Pennsylvania court allowed the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Pennsylvania Republicans to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the state’s law that does not allow misdated or undated mail-in ballots to be counted.
Last week, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania tossed out a right-wing lawsuit brought by two members of the Lycoming County Patriots who challenged the results of the county’s 2020 general election over two years after it took place.