Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman’s campaign has filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, one day before the midterm elections, demanding elections officials count undated or improperly dated mail-in ballots for every race in the state.
The lawsuit against Pennsylvania’s 67 county boards of elections was filed on Monday and comes nearly one week after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that all absentee and mail-in ballots received in undated or incorrectly dated envelopes should not be counted.
Ballot instructions tell Pennsylvania voters, who vote by mail, to “fill out, date and sign the declaration” on the envelope.
“The date imposes unnecessary hurdles that eligible Pennsylvanians must clear to exercise their most fundamental right, resulting in otherwise valid votes being arbitrarily rejected without any reciprocal benefit to the Commonwealth,” the campaign’s lawsuit reads, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Fetterman is currently locked in a tight battle with Republican candidate and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz with the outcome of the race having the potential to tip the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
Fetterman’s campaign filed Monday’s lawsuit with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
“As we fight this latest Republican attack on Americans’ democratic rights, Pennsylvanians should check their ballot status to ensure their vote is counted,” the groups said in a joint statement. “We are committed to using every tool at our disposal to protect Pennsylvanians’ constitutional right to participate in this election, including defeating the GOP in court.”
On Monday, a judge in Pennsylvania’s Monroe County ruled that election officials could notify the few hundred voters, whose mail-in ballots were submitted with errors, to give them the opportunity to make corrections. The county’s Republican Party sued, arguing any corrections on defective ballots must be submitted “in person.”
In last week’s two-page ruling requiring mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates be tossed, the six-judge panel said it was split on whether failing to count the ballots violated the Civil Rights Act. Three Democratic judges said they would find it in violation of federal law, while two Republican judges were joined by a fourth Democrat in finding no violation with the move.
In the lawsuit, Fetterman’s campaign estimates thousands of ballots will be left uncounted for what they called the “technicality” of a wrong or missing date.
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Typical Liberal—if they can’t win playing by the rules, they have to cry foul.
AND IF those voters have been INSTRUCTED THE SAME THING for the say past 12 years, WHY NOW< is it all of a sudden a "unnecessary hurdle"??
Just why is it that Pennsylvania takes weeks to figure out who won the lection while FLorida gets it done same day? You know why! The Deomcrat machines politicians that have discovered whole new technologies and delay tactics on how to steal an election. Those too stupid to sign and date a ballot are not the kind of people you want electing governing officials, who end up governing in the same stupid mode of the dumbells who elected them. In the days when the mentally disturbed were institutionalized, the Democrats had a lot harder time winning elections, and getting out the vote.
PLUS why, in the DECADES BEFORE WE even had ‘electronic voting counting machines’, DID WE HAVE MILLIONS OF Ballots, counted by hand, AND GOT THE RESULTS THE SAME BLOODY DAY (or the day after), YET Now everything’s gone electronic, it has RATHER THAN MADE THINGS EASIER< made things HARDER!?!??!?!!?
I thought the purpose of going electric, was to STREAMLINE The process?!?
“Are you going to believe me, the corrupt, lying, obedient puppet president Joe Biden or your lying eyes?”
This is a replay of what happened in 2020, the laws were specific but the the secretary of state for our commonwealth decided due to COVID the rules should be suspended and what was worse the courts sided with her and let her get away with breaking the law. The race was close but suddenly Biden won and then requests for investigation were denied all over the place. Result: it’s unclear who actually won the vote as opposed to the ‘official’ election results.
ONCE again, PA Is setting up to steal the vote.
give this crybaby a pacifier.
Why should he worry.. HIS handlers will do the same in PA, as they did to trump…