Late last week, the RNC achieved yet another election integrity victory in Pennsylvania to do with mail ballots. The RNC Election Integrity team achieved a win last month, though a panel with the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court overturned that days later. More recently, however, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected such a challenge, the RNC announced last Friday, voiding the lower court’s ruling.
“This is a huge win to protect the vote in Pennsylvania that will secure commonsense mail ballot safeguards and help voters cast their ballots with confidence. The Keystone State will be absolutely critical in this election, and the Supreme Court has decided a major victory for election integrity,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement.
Pennsylvania state law requires that voters sign and date their mail ballots in order for them to be considered, which the RNC refers to as “an important election integrity safeguard” when it comes to providing background about this latest victory. However, leftist groups filed lawsuits to try to strike down the date requirement. Ballots that are misdated or undated will not be counted.
“The Commonwealth Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review the matter given the failure to name the county boards of elections of all 67 counties,” the state Supreme Court noted. Even more noteworthy is that such a court has a heavily liberal slant of 5-2. Friday’s decision was 4-3. […]
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