A coalition of nine voting rights groups, including the Public Interest Law Center, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and joined by Arnold & Porter, filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court on Tuesday. The suit challenges the state's requirement for voters to handwrite a date on their mail ballot return envelopes, arguing that the rule is unconstitutional and has disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters. The plaintiffs, representing community groups across Pennsylvania, aim to overturn the law before the November election, which is expected to be pivotal in selecting the next president. The lawsuit highlights that many ballots are rejected for trivial handwritten date mistakes, and it seeks to prevent thousands of mail-in ballots from being discarded. Joe Sommar, a voter from Chester County, criticized the date requirement as arbitrary, noting that the county already knows when ballots are received.
Although there have been several previous lawsuits challenging the date requirement in other courts, Tuesday’s lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court, focuses primarily on state constitutional claims. https://t.co/fvLCBPCfPp
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A new lawsuit, filed in a state court, is the latest of perhaps a half-dozen cases to challenge a provision in Pennsylvania law that voters must write the date when they sign their mail-in ballot envelope. https://t.co/f80BR8Ymy3
A new lawsuit is trying to prevent thousands of mail-in ballots from being thrown out in the November election in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/OxDjkqlgyW
A new lawsuit filed Tuesday by a constellation of left-leaning groups in Pennsylvania is trying to prevent thousands of mail-in ballots from being thrown out in November's election in a battleground state that is expected to play a critical role in... https://t.co/CxWMHQPmjS
The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the mandatory handwritten date on the outside secrecy envelope of mail-in ballots. https://t.co/fvLCBPCfPp
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania would prevent thousands of mail-in ballots from being thrown out in November’s election. It challenges a provision in Pennsylvania law that voters must write the date when they sign their mail-in ballot envelope. https://t.co/IpZSjwVxwx
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Nine Voting Rights Groups Sue PA Over Mail Ballot Date Requirement Ahead of November Election https://t.co/L62LmaNXpQ
New court challenge filed in Pennsylvania to prevent some mail-in ballots from getting thrown out https://t.co/YKa5K6kABV
Pennsylvania voting rights groups are once again seeking to overturn a state law that bars undated or incorrectly dated mail ballots from being counted. They hope to win before November's election. https://t.co/e4tPwiI3ya
“The county knows that my ballot was received on time, and I don’t know why the date is necessary,” Joe Sommar, a Chester County voter who submitted a declaration in support of the suit, said in the news release. “It seems like an arbitrary thing." https://t.co/aHog3Bc3HQ
HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) _ A new lawsuit filed Tuesday by left-leaning groups in Pennsylvania is trying to prevent thousands of mail-in ballots from being thrown out in November's election in a battleground state that is expected to play a critical role in selecting a new president.
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BREAKING: Today we and @PubIntLawCtr filed suit in Commonwealth Court on behalf of 9 voting rights groups, challenging PA's requirement to handwrite a date on the mail ballot return envelope. The rule is unconstitutional and has disenfranchised tens of thousands of PA voters.
NEW: Thousands of PA voters each year have their mail-in ballots rejected for trivial handwritten date mistakes. Today, we sued @PAStateDept to change that, joined by @aclupa & @arnoldporter, representing community groups across Pennsylvania. Read more: https://t.co/bV41OelWv7 https://t.co/73EMfl6CS8
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