November 4, 2022 8:20pm EDT
Pennsylvania Republicans voice concerns about midterm ballot counting in letter to secretary of state
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates cannot be counted
By Andrew Mark Miller | Fox News
Pennsylvania Republicans are raising several concerns about the midterm election process, including the commonwealth’s implementation of a recent ruling directing how mail-in ballots that were filled out with incorrect or missing dates should be handled.
"Your office should ensure counties have clarity that undated mail-in ballots should be kept separate from mail-in ballots with a completed voter declaration and that those ballots should not be counted," Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman and Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward, both Republicans, wrote in a Friday letter to acting Pennsylvania Secretary of State Leigh Chapman, a Democrat.
The letter to the Pennsylvania secretary of state comes days after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered election officials to disallow mail-in ballots with the wrong date marked on the envelope, potentially throwing out numerous votes in close races that could determine control of the U.S. Congress in next week’s midterms.
In its short ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court also said that it was evenly split on the question of whether throwing out ballots with incorrect dates or no dates marked on the envelopes in which they are mailed violates a federal law that makes it illegal to throw out ballots for trivial reasons.
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