{"id":1668012,"date":"2022-10-01T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1668012"},"modified":"2022-10-01T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T17:20:13","slug":"pennsylvania-counties-can-help-voters-fix-issues-with-mail-in-ballots-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-counties-can-help-voters-fix-issues-with-mail-in-ballots-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Counties Can Help Voters Fix Issues With Mail-In Ballots: Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-can-help-voters-fix-issues-with-mail-in-ballots-judge%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=1668012&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a> counties can help voters \u201ccure\u201d mail-in ballots to fix defects, a judge in the state has ruled, rejecting an attempt to block counties from doing so in the upcoming midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-republican-national-committee\">Republican National Committee<\/a> (RNC) and other parties, which filed a petition over the matter on Sept. 1, \u201chave not proven that there is a clear violation of the Election Code or the law interpreting the Election Code,\u201d Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler said in an opinion\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The petition pointed to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that found that state election code enables voters to vote by mail but \u201cdoes not provide for the \u2018notice and opportunity to cure\u2019 procedure\u201d that was sought by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Setting rules on fixing ballots \u201cis one best suited for the Legislature,\u201d the unanimous ruling stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Legislature has addressed the issue of when Boards may provide notice and an opportunity to cure a non-compliant mail-in or absentee ballot,\u201d Republicans said in the petition. \u201cThe Election Code currently provides a cure procedure in only a limited circumstance: \u201c[f]or those absentee ballots or mail-in ballots for which proof of identification has\u00a0not been received or could not be verified.\u2019 And even in that circumstance, the voter may cure only the lack of proof of identification and not any other defect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That means that the county boards that have been issuing procedures to cure ballots are in violation of the ruling, the Republicans said.<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0Ceisler, a Democrat, said that the Republicans have not proven they are likely to succeed or that the counties are violating election code or the law interpreting the code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA review of relevant and recent case law indicates that notice and opportunity to cure procedures implemented by County Boards have generally been accepted in order to fulfill the longstanding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania counties can help voters \u201ccure\u201d mail-in ballots to fix defects, a judge in the state has ruled, rejecting an attempt to block counties from doing so in the upcoming midterm election. The Republican National Committee (RNC) and other parties, which filed a petition over the matter on Sept. 1, \u201chave not proven that there [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-1668012","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\/1668012","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668012\/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=1668012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}