'This lawsuit is the only one that is squarely addressing the constitutionality of disenfranchising voters under Pennsylvania's Constitution,' said Marian Schneider, a lawyer in the case and senior policy counsel for voting rights for ACLU PennsylvaniaA new lawsuit is trying to prevent thousands of mail-in ballots from being thrown out in the November election in Pennsylvania. The battleground state that is expected to play a critical role in selecting a new president.
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 selecting a new president.The 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.
Enforcement of the dating provision resulted in at least 10,000 ballots getting thrown out in the 2022 mid-term election alone, the lawsuit said. Lawyers in the case said research shows that a disproportionate share of rejected ballots come from older voters, poorer districts and Black and Latino communities.
Roughly three-fourths of mail-in ballots tend to be cast by Democrats in Pennsylvania, possibly the result of former President Donald Trump baselessly claiming that mail-in voting is rife with fraud. Republicans are urging their voters to cast ballots by mail. Still, national Republican groups signaled that they will oppose the lawsuit.
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