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From Fox News: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state must count provisional ballots for voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected or improperly filled out in a 4-3 decision that could provide thousands of voters in the state with a second chance to cast their vote.
The ruling is the latest in a string of defeats for Republicans, who have filed nearly 100 election-related court challenges in recent weeks in what they say are legal challenges aimed at preventing voter fraud through absentee and mail-in ballots.
Many of them have been filed in swing states considered pivotal for either candidate to win the presidency.
In Pennsylvania, the RNC had appealed a lower court decision that allowed voters who mistakenly sent their mail-in ballots without an inner “secrecy” envelope to cast in-person provisional ballots at their local polling location.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld that decision in a 4-3 vote, siding with a lower court that had ruled that a local election board in Butler County had been wrong this year when they disqualified provisional ballots cast by several residents in the 2024 primary election.
Breaking:
In a defeat for the GOP, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court AFFIRMS order making the Butler County Board of Elections count a disputed set of provisional ballots.
This case was on @Just_Security‘s Top 10 election litigation list this week.
More https://t.co/T2vStvJk64 pic.twitter.com/9iPBvAxxFB
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) October 23, 2024
The ACLU is celebrating:
🎉VICTORY! The PA Supreme Court today agreed with a lower court that counties must count provisional ballots from voters with disqualifying errors on their mail ballot packets.
The voters win!https://t.co/Fuore1yVfc pic.twitter.com/5SAiqt57BQ
— ACLU of Pennsylvania (@aclupa) October 23, 2024
Also, this just happened: “Lancaster County team finds and stops suspected voter registration fraud operation.”
PennLive.com reports: Lancaster County Chief Clerk of Elections, Christa Miller, contacted the District Attorney’s office Tuesday afternoon after receiving approximately 2,500 applications at or near the voter registration deadline. The applications were dropped off in two batches, and numerous applications had indicators of fraud, said Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams at a news conference Friday. The indicators of fraud include inaccurate addresses, false names and names that did not match the provided social security information, she said.
BREAKING: Lancaster County team finds and stops suspected voter registration fraud operation.
Press conference at 11:30 AM.
Livestream can be found here: https://t.co/CqUKWXPgdD pic.twitter.com/nuKizpNxqb
— Commissioner Josh Parsons (@CommissionerJP) October 25, 2024
WATCH:
BREAKING: Lancaster, Pennsylvania officials have BUSTED a large-scale fraudulent voter registration scheme that includes thousands of applications with the same handwriting, fake signatures, false addresses, etc
They discovered the same scheme in other Pennsylvania counties.… pic.twitter.com/xiN320U9jY
— George (@BehizyTweets) October 25, 2024
Battleground state’s high court rejects GOP challenge to provisional ballot rules https://t.co/rCqgQYdCyp
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 25, 2024
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