Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds exclusion of certain mail-in ballots, in victory for GOP

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that mail-in ballots with incorrect oregon missing dates cannot beryllium counted successful the 2024 election, delivering a triumph to Republican Party officials arsenic they moved to aggressively support their constrictive Senate triumph successful amid a recount situation successful the Keystone State. 

In a 4-3 decision, the authorities Supreme Court reaffirmed its anterior determination that counties successful the authorities cannot number incorrectly dated oregon undated ballots, explicitly singling retired Boards of Elections successful Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia County, whom they said "SHALL COMPLY with the anterior rulings of this Court successful which we person clarified" for mail-in and absentee ballots successful their Nov. 1 ruling.

The determination is simply a triumph for Republican Party officials, who had filed 12 antithetic lawsuits successful the authorities amid an assertive Senate recount effort pursuing the constrictive triumph of Republican campaigner David McCormick implicit three-term Democrat Sen. Bob Casey.

REPUBLICANS FILE 12 PENNSYLVANIA LAWSUITS IN 'AGGRESSIVE' PUSH TO END RECOUNT

FILE: This Nov. 6, 2020 record photograph shows a wide presumption of the Pennsylvania Judicial Center, location to the Commonwealth Court successful Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

McCormick had defeated Casey by immoderate 17,000 ballots successful the state, oregon wrong the 0.5% borderline of mistake that allows Casey to suffice for an automatic recount nether Pennsylvania law. 

But up of the Pennsylvania Senate recount, which officially kicked disconnected connected Monday, Republicans had sounded the alarm by predetermination region commissioners successful Philadelphia, Bucks County, and Montgomery Count for moving to let for the counting of incorrectly dated and undated mail-in and absentee ballots—an effort enactment officials said broke with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision.

Democrat Senator Bob Casey and Republican Dave McCormick  ( Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images, left, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, right.)

Speaking to reporters connected a telephone Monday, Republican Party Chair Michael Whatley vowed to support "an aggressive, broad and strategical ineligible posture for arsenic agelong arsenic it takes to guarantee that this predetermination is going to beryllium certified" successful Pennsylvania, and to bring an extremity to what enactment officials described arsenic "corrupt and despicable conduct" by Democrats successful the state.

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While the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Nov. 1 that requiring mail-in ballots to person handwritten dates is constitutional, successful a triumph for the GOP, the caller framing is much direct— establishing that counties trying to number specified ballots are so trying to interruption the law. 

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