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Where was the insanity of stopping non-citizens from voting in our federal elections?
Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania.
Some sanity in the world.
What are you talking about? This case deals with people who forgot to use a second envelope when mailing in their ballots.
Even though omission of the outer envelop takes away any ability to assess the legitimacy of the ballot, it's probably the right decision. Vote by mail is just a bad idea, IMO, regardless of whether it's convenient or popular. Leads to these situations where someone has to make a judgement call on whether or not it was a voter who couldn't follow simple instructions. Gray areas like that are too easy to exploit. At least they got it settled before the election, and hopefully tha PA legislature will tighten up their legislation going forward.
The question is that people were not using an inner secrecy envelope that was placed in the outer envelope. Voters were using the correct outer envelope but did not use the inner secrecy envelope. In any event, voters were allowed to cast a provisional ballot in case their mail-in ballot was rejected because of the missing secrecy envelope.
In typical Pennsylvania fashion, they don’t know how to correct the problem very well. Why not have a lookup system where voters can check online whether there are any problems with the ballot they sent in? If there are, they can come into the board of elections to get them corrected. It’s what we do here.
Okay, if that's the case (never did see those details mentioned in any of the blurbs I saw on the topic ). I'd be inclined to say the Pennsylvania legislature should modify their laws to simply accept a ballot received in such a condition, and put a big warning in what they mail out that if the voter blows off the secrecy envelope then the secrecy of their ballot cannot be guaranteed, but then put in a reasonable process for workers to follow to to preserve secrecy to the extent possible. I'm still an anacranism and will never feel good unless I put my own ballot in a box with officials monitoring it on election day.
I think you guys mean the Pennsy Supreme Court. Which made convoluted decisions in previous elections against the State Constitution.Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania.
Some sanity in the world.
The secrecy envelope has the written info provided by the voter that verifies who they are and that they’re a registered voter. It’s a necessary feature of the system for it to work. The outside envelope contains none of that.
