U.S. District Court Invalidates Pennsylvania Law Requiring Voters to Fill in the Date on Postal Ballots

Posted on by November 23, 2023

On November 21, U.S. District Court judge Susan P. Baxter, a Trump appointee, struck down a Pennsylvania election law that says postally mailed ballots are invalid if the voter forgets to fill out a blank on the outer envelope with the date, or if the voter gets the date wrong. Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v Schmidt, w.d., 1:22cv-339. Here is the opinion.

The plaintiffs won under the Materiality Provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That provision says voters cannot be deprived of their vote if the reason for invalidating their vote is an error that has not actual impact on election administration. The plaintiffs argued that the blank line on the outer envelope, on which the date should have been inserted, is not actually useful. The county election office date-stamps all the ballots as they arrive.

This case was filed in 2022 and attracted an amicus from the Republican National Committee in defense of the state law. The same issue had also been thrashed out in state court last year.

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U.S. District Court Invalidates Pennsylvania Law Requiring Voters to Fill in the Date on Postal Ballots — 22 Comments

  1. ELECTION LAW 0002 –

    MAIL BALLOTS ARE A SUBSTITUTE FOR IN PERSON VOTING ON GENERAL ELECTION DAYS.

    BALLOTS RECEIVED AFTER GE DAY SHOULD BE VOID.

  2. Sure, if you love election fraud and stolen elections. All votes should be in person, on election day, on the record, standing count.

  5. ABSENTEE BALLOTS MAINLY STARTED DURING CIVIL WAR I —

    UNION TROOPERS SMASHING KILLERS/SLAVERS IN SOUTHERN STATES.

    NOW USA TROOPERS FIGHTING KILLER / ENSLAVER BARBARIANS IN VARIOUS AREAS.

    OREGON ETC SURVIVING WITH ALL MAIL BALLOTS ???

  10. Killers/enslavers were more from the north. For one thing, they included several slave states. For another, if the aim was to end slavery, they could have done it sooner, less expensively, and without all the bloodshed, by paying compensation like every other country in North and South America did (except Haiti, where all Whites were killed). For a third, the north committed numerous war crimes. The war expanded other forms of slavery that continue to this day (see the book Freeing Slaves, Enslaving Free Men). Lastly, the expansion of the federal government resulting from the war has led to many more wars and deaths since, including the rise of Bolshevism and Nazism as a consequence of US involvement in WWI, destroying the peace of Brest-Litovsk.

    Absentee ballots: bad idea then, bad idea now.

    Oregon survives under commie rule that’s turned Portland into a turd world craphole and has Eastern Oregon begging to secede. It “survives,” but then so do North Korea and Cuba. Not examples to emulate.

    What makes AZ think anyone here was arrested in connection with J6 or is plotting any crimes?

    AZ links are of course fake news, so I didn’t read the latest one. The polls are biased, as 2016 showed, and Trump is way further ahead than they think. He’ll be even way further ahead than now in another 11 months.

  11. Adam Cerini, interesting link, thanks!

    The one quibble I have is that I’m sure a lot more than 29,000 fraudulent votes were cast in 2020.

  12. Didn’t AZ use to rail against mail voting fraud when he was demo rep? Now It seems he has become even more divorced from reality post name change.

  13. WHAT IS THE UTOPIA SYSTEM OF THE BAN TROLLS (ESP THOSE USING MANY FAKE NAMES) FOR PICKING TOP LEGIS / EXEC / JUDIC FOLKS ???

    JUST HAVE TYRANT TRUMP PICK NAMES OUT OF HIS FULL TOILET ???

  17. @AZ,

    That nice gentleman retrieved my ballot from my mailbox and helped me fill it out. He said he would even mail it in.

  20. JR-

    Any good food in the bag or just more cheap junk food as at major party conventions ???
    —
    P-A-T

  21. Utopia system of BAN troll moron AZ: AZ retard plan.

    Non utopia asymptotic long range goal (north star) of non-troll non morons: Max plan.

    USSR today is fake news. Now 8 states = massively fraudulent snail elections, communism, rapid accelerating rot, approaching turd world conditions, civilization circling drain, bums, invaders, criminals, leeches and lunatics running the asylum. Abandon ship!

  22. Beijing Biden. Junk food and junk votes. Duh. Junk the snail. Vote in PERSON, standing count, by party, on the record.

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