{"id":1551369,"date":"2022-07-12T19:49:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551369"},"modified":"2022-07-12T19:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T23:49:34","slug":"pennsylvania-counties-refuse-to-count-undated-mail-in-ballots-state-sues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-counties-refuse-to-count-undated-mail-in-ballots-state-sues\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Counties Refuse to Count Undated Mail-In Ballots, State Sues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-counties-refuse-to-count-undated-mail-in-ballots-state-sues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1551369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Pennsylvania state is suing officials of three counties to force their local government to count undated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mail-in-ballots\">mail-in ballots<\/a> in a recent primary election.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Department of State (DOS) and Acting Secretary Leigh Chapman filed a lawsuit on July 12 against the Board of Elections of three counties in the Commonwealth\u2014Lancaster, Berks, and Fayette\u2014to seek a court injunction forcing the counties to count undated mail-in ballots cast in Pennsylvania\u2019s 2022 primary elections.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, says in the <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22084316\/2022-07-12-memorandum-of-law.pdf\">filing<\/a> that election officials in the three Republican-controlled counties refused to count absentee and mail-in ballots that were \u201clawfully cast by qualified voters\u201d but lack a date on the return envelope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Court should order the three county boards that are delaying resolution of the 2022 primary election to send to the Acting Secretary certifications reflecting all lawfully cast ballots,\u201d the plaintiffs wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release issued Tuesday afternoon, the Lancaster County Board of Elections wrote that the plaintiffs\u2019 demand \u201cis contrary to the law or any existing court order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be absolutely clear, the Lancaster County Board of Elections properly certified the 2022 primary election results in accordance with the PA Election Code at 25 P.S. 2642(k) and any court order regarding undated mail-in ballots and submitted that certification to the Department of State on June 6, 2022,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.co.lancaster.pa.us\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2034\">press release<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe County received confirmation of receipt from the DOS on June 7, 2022. The Commonwealth\u2019s demand is contrary to the law or any existing court order. The County will vigorously defend its position to follow the law to ensure the integrity of elections in Lancaster County,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania state law requires ballots that are received on time and cast by a qualified voter but are missing a handwritten date on the envelope to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania state is suing officials of three counties to force their local government to count undated mail-in ballots in a recent primary election. The Pennsylvania Department of State (DOS) and Acting Secretary Leigh Chapman filed a lawsuit on July 12 against the Board of Elections of three counties in the Commonwealth\u2014Lancaster, Berks, and Fayette\u2014to seek [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}