Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules mail ballots with incorrect dates won't be counted

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I realize Philly rules PA

Here in the West, there’s virtually zero talk about the ballot issue. The suburbs and surrounding areas, where I live, are mostly vote in person. The city of Pittsburgh and other areas with a large number of lower income people who vote consistently Democratic, I’m afraid don’t know about needing to request a ballot. That’s the difference between now and 2020.

In 2020, ballots were automatically mailed to anyone who wanted one, regardless of reason. That’s not the case this year.

That's not correct. The law has not changed between Oct. 31, 2019 when then-Gov. Tom Wolf signed it, and now.

If someone wanted to vote "absentee" - whether it was because they were "out of town" or had some other circumstance (e.g., medical) where they couldn't come "in person" to vote, OR, if they wanted to avail of the new "no-excuse absentee ballot", they had to request to receive an "absentee ballot" AND DESIGNATE which type of "absentee" category ( "excuse" or "no-excuse" ) that they were applying for.

There was nothing "automatic". You had to affirmatively select the option.

When the initial ballot request is made, it also includes the OPTION, to either do this ONE TIME -or- to continue to receive a mail ballot for any remaining elections for that single year. Then you had to "start over" to mail vote the next year.

If you didn't select the option to continue mail ballots for that year, then you got nothing "automatically" mailed to you for any later elections after the initial application (including any special elections).

Hopefully, the huge turnout in your part of the state will offset what *could* happen here in the West from people not knowing they need to request a ballot by 10/29. The huge population of Philly voting Democratic should be enough to carry PA for Kamala.

Somehow, magically, Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman got elected Governor and U.S. Senator respectively, in 2022. People weren't clueless on the western side of the state, mainly because Fetterman lived there. He beat Oz by over 260,000 votes.

And they certainly didn't elect the 45-annointed insurrectionist loon Doug Mastriano to be the Governor. Shapiro beat Mastriano by over 3/4 million votes (~768,000).

So there was a good-sized turnout, state-wide.

2022




The difference for Shapiro for example, between his 2020 run for AG and 2022 run for Governor, was about 500,000 votes lower during the "off year" turnout. But incredibly, the 2016, 2018, 2020 & 2022 elections each had almost 1 million MORE voters than the 2014 "off year" election (when Tom Wolf first ran for election against teabagger Corbett).