PHILADELPHIA — The law that created mail voting in Pennsylvania has withstood another Republican legal challenge.
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Tuesday rejected GOP arguments that recent court decisions in the ongoing legal battle over whether to count ballots with missing or incorrect dates triggered a provision that would render the broader statute, known as Act 77, invalid.
Act 77 includes a clause that says the mail voting law must be scrapped if any of its individual requirements are struck down by courts. Fourteen current and former Republican state lawmakers had contended that recent rulings calling for the counting of undated ballots had effectively invalidated the law’s requirement that voters handwrite a date on their ballot’s outer envelope and thus rendered the entire mail voting law void.
