Seventh Justice, another Republican, agreed with the verdict.
The court pointed out that “the County Board of Elections shall not count, calculate, and compare signatures conducted by county election officials or employees, or refuse mail-in disagreements, or as a result of third party challenges based on such comparisons. ”
U.S. Already in 2020, less than 15 million Pennsylvanians have submitted their ballots, according to the Election Project. That’s a significant portion of the vote in Pennsylvania, where approximately 2.5 million people voted in the 2016 general election.
Commonwealth Pennsylvania Secretary Kathy Booker issued a guidance earlier this year stating that local election officials could not tussle the ballot because of the comparison of signatures alone.
“If the voter’s declaration is signed on the return envelope and the county board is satisfied that the declaration is sufficient, mail-in or absentee ballots should be allowed for canvas until challenged by Pennsylvania Electoral Code,” the bookmaker’s mid-September guide said. . “The Pennsylvania Electoral Code does not allow an election county board to set aside an absent return or set aside a mail-in ballot based on an analysis signed by the election county board.”
The court concluded that there was no section in the state election code that could reject ballots on the basis of comparison of signatures, and that state legislators would have included them if they wished.
“We do not have a role under the tripartite system of governance to engage in and rewrite the law, in which conditions are not present, and we will not do so in this instance,” the court wrote.
Like many states, Pennsylvania is expected to see a big wave of ballots submitted by mail this year due to the coronavirus epidemic. The state’s countdown to the decisive battle is expected to be slow in the vote count, as it does not allow election officials to begin the process on the mail ballot until election day, meaning the state does not expect a definite result in November.
Republican legislators and Democratic governors. Tom Wolfe talked about extending the time of that process, but it looks like they are completely broken. The state legislature was adjourned earlier this week, and without any dealings with the governor, is not expected to return until after election day.
