Mail ballots are sorted and counted in Allentown, Lehigh County, on Election Day November 2022.Unhappy with their latest legal setback in trying to have Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law thrown out, Republicans are now appealing to the state Supreme Court.
Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration has said that more than 7.5 million Pennsylvanians have voted by mail over the past three years. In this case, the law requires that voters hand date the outer envelope of their mail-in ballot so that it is valid, but Republicans had claimed that two previous court rulings that refused to enforce that requirement activated the provision to throw out the entire law.One of the GOP plaintiffs on the lawsuit is state Rep. Barb Gleim of Cumberland County, who voted for Act 77 but is now trying to get it invalidated.
“Because a part of the law was deemed to be in violation of our civil rights by the courts, then the entire law should be invalid,” she said in a statement. “Yet, the courts are continuing to allow the law to stand.”