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US appeals court to decide if Pennsylvania mail-in ballots with wrong date still count

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Timber Rattler:
https://apnews.com/article/mailin-ballot-errors-pennsylvania-election-fa72d34af56de81c571b07c034c804e7?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=share


--- Quote ---A federal appeals court must decide if Pennsylvania voters need to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots for the votes to count, a dispute with implications for this year’s presidential contest.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments in Philadelphia Tuesday over a district judge’s ruling in November that even without the proper dates, mail-in ballots should be counted if they are received in time.

Ari Savitzky, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union representing several voter groups, told the court that more than 10,000 ballots in Pennsylvania were disqualified in 2022 based on what he called “a meaningless paperwork error.” He argued that the “materiality provision” of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was designed to prevent that.

“An immaterial mistake on a piece of paperwork doesn’t go to the deficiency or validity of the ballot itself,” he argued before the three-judge panel.
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EXCERPT

Fishrrman:
Of course they still count.

"Every vote should be counted"...

... even the phony manufactured ones.

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