Divided authorities has prevented Pennsylvania from substantively updating its voting legal guidelines because the election mess of 2020, and it’ll spin the roulette wheel once more in November. Think about if management of the Senate comes right down to John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz, with a decide requested to resolve whether or not to rely undated mail ballots.
Final week the Supreme Courtroom cleared the decks for that risk. The story begins with a Pennsylvania judicial election from 2021. Republican David Ritter led by 71 ballots, however there have been 257 mail ballots on which voters didn’t hand-write a date. The Pennsylvania judiciary has held that relationship is obligatory, as a result of the legislation tells voters to “fill out, date and signal.”
