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It's getting harder for criminals to commit election fraud......at least, in Pennsylvania.
This effort and this ruling has absolutely nothing to do with Election Integrity, Election Security, or preventing Election Fraud.
This is all geared, the way all Republican legislation is and court actions in the States are, towards disenfranchising as many Independents and Democrats as possible.
A signature I can understand, for to match it with a Registration, but rejecting an unopened Ballot Return Envelope simply because it is missing a date or has an incorrect date it just the most insane notion I can think of!
Seriously? What is that date requirement going to prove? It proves nothing. The Election Authority already knows the dates when Absentee Ballots are mailed out, they already track when Absentee Ballots are returned, they know when the Election is, they know what date and time Absentee Ballots must be returned by.
Of what possible use is the Elector dating a Ballot Return Envelope?
If the signature matches, the ballot matches the election, what need is there for a date?
In a statement, RNC Chair Michael Whatley called the ruling "a crucial victory for election integrity and voter confidence."
"Pennsylvanians deserve to feel confident in the security of their mail ballots, and this 3rd Circuit ruling roundly rejects unlawful left-wing attempts to count undated or incorrectly dated mail ballots," Whatley said. "Republicans will continue to fight and win for election integrity in courts across the country ahead of the 2024 election."
There it is. Here come the GOP to save Pennsylvanians from the evil left.
Civil rights lawyers see it differently.
Ari Savitzky, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP, the lead plaintiff, said in a statement that they are "considering all of our options at this time."
"If this ruling stands, thousands of Pennsylvania voters could lose their vote over a meaningless paperwork error," said Mike Lee, executive director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, in a statement. "The ballots in question in this case come from voters who are eligible and who met the submission deadline. In passing the Civil Rights Act, Congress put a guardrail in place to be sure that states don't erect unnecessary barriers that disenfranchise voters. It's unfortunate that the court failed to recognize that principle. Voters lose as a result of this ruling."
If a plain reading of this attorney's opinion is correct, the law will be struck down. There is nothing that necessitates any date be entered by any voter on any ballot. You may as well require 10 minutes of air accordion to submit a ballot. There's an idea. Fraudulent ballots using Trump memes.