PA SCOTUS Ruling

Let's break down this latest Trump stacked SCOTUS ruling that upheld a lower PA State Supreme Court ruling which stated: PA voters will be allowed to cast a provisional ballot election day if their mail-in ballot was rejected for a simple garden-variety error.

As of Thursday this is about 9K votes with issues like "naked" w/ no security covering, signature, or date. In a swing state these votes could turn an election, so yes this is a small victory for the Democrats that want every vote counted. However, praise for the SCOTUS upholding this should be muted because as provisional votes, these votes have a high chance of not being counted at all. Provisional vote ballots are notorious for getting misplaced & forgotten about, lost, or "circularly filed", and they know this -- that's even if the voters have been informed their ballot was disqualified to know to redo it Election Day, or if they will be able to get to the polling place Election Day. So using the known 9K as an example, if 30% of this number never get counted that's almost 2.7K votes gone in PA the most swingy swing state.

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anonymous Political November 02, 2024 at 2:15 pm 0 0