Pa. was deluged by election lawsuits in 2020. Experts say 2024 will be even more intense.
Mailed ballots at center of 2024 election lawsuits in PA
Spotlight PA link: https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/03/pennsylvania-election-2024-lawsuits-mail-ballots-voter-registration-joe-biden-donald-trump-josh-shapiro/
Election experts, lawyers, and others called the suit the first salvo in what is expected to be another year of high-stakes court battles in Pennsylvania, a swing state that four years ago helped decide the nail-biting race between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
With a Biden-Trump rematch likely in November, new challenges are expected to target everything from the legality of drop boxes to what constitutes a valid mail ballot. One case involving mail ballots that a voter fails to date or misdates has the potential to land before the U.S. Supreme Court. ...
Elected officials, activists, and others say this potentially crowded litigation landscape could have easily been prevented if, as they have been urging for more than three years, the state legislature had clarified portions of Pennsylvania’s landmark 2019 law that ushered in voting by mail. But the General Assembly, bogged down by partisan disagreements fueled by Trump’s relentless attacks on mail ballots and unfounded claims of election fraud, has failed to strike a consensus on making those changes.
The Repukes will do anything to deny our ballots, especially our MAILED ballots!
Pennsylvania voters - please be sure to sign and date your mail ballot envelopes strictly according to the printed instructions. Any unsigned or incorrectly signed or dated ballot envelopes will create more fodder for the Repukes' arguments.
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Some counties are doing it, and others aren't. Some counties are so against ballot curing that there were lawsuits to get the ballots thrown out.
So I'm in Allegheny County and we've had ballot curing in the past 3 elections. The County Board of Elections will receive the ballot envelopes and discover an error on the signature or the date (usually the error is the date). They contact the voter and ask them to come down to the Board of Elections office and "fix" the problem. Almost always the voter has been able to do that before the election day deadline so the ballot gets counted. If the ballot doesn't get cured in time, then it goes into a holding file of provisional or quarantined ballots. Those votes may not get counted later, depending on circumstances.
Other Pennsylvania counties (many are rural) aren't doing this. They're chucking every mailed ballot with incorrect signature or date into quarantine. There are cases where those ballots NEVER get counted at all. In other cases they're treated like provisional ballots. Each County Board does it differently, depending on their Party leadership. Harrisburg should have fixed this problem, but they didn't and now here we are.
