![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/pennsylvania-ordered-to-discount-some-postal-votes/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AA13ELro.jpeg&description=Pennsylvania's top court has ruled that mail-in ballots marked with the wrong date will not be counted. © Getty Images Pennsylvania will set aside and preserve undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots In a victory for Republicans ahead of the midterms, the court said such votes would be set aside and preserved.Democrats and Republicans are deeply split on mail-in voting. The issue gained prominence after a surge in the 2020 election caused by the pandemic. Republicans fear postal voting benefits Democrats, even though data suggests both parties are affected equally.About 70% of the 1.4 million requests for mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania this year come from Democrats, compared to 20% from Republicans. After the previous election, then-President Donald Trump condemned mail-in ballots as a "big scam" and baselessly claimed that millions of ballots were sent from abroad as part of a "rigged" election. Citing a need for election security, Republicans in October sued to stop undated ballots from being counted. The six members of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court said that they were evenly split on whether or not discarding ballots marked with incorrect dates violated the federal Civil Rights Act, which makes it illegal to throw out ballots for minor reasons. It said that state election officials should "segregate and preserve" any ballots that were mailed in undated or incorrectly dated envelopes in case there was a further legal challenge. It is unclear whether Pennsylvania will appeal against the decision.Democrats and civil rights organisations have characterised lawsuits aimed at restricting mail-in voting as efforts to restrict votes and potentially tip the scales in tight races. In the 2020 election, for example, Philadelphia alone recorded 8,300 undated ballots out of a total of 381,000 mail-in ballots, "We're disappointed," the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania said. "No-one should be disenfranchised for an irrelevant technicality." So far this election c){kind=link}
Pennsylvania’s top court has ruled that mail-in ballots marked with the wrong date will not be counted.
In a victory for Republicans ahead of the midterms, the court said such votes would be set aside and preserved.
Democrats and Republicans are deeply split on mail-in voting. The issue gained prominence after a surge in the 2020 election caused by the pandemic.
Republicans fear postal voting benefits Democrats, even though data suggests both parties are affected equally.
About 70% of the 1.4 million requests for mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania this year come from Democrats, compared to 20% from Republicans.