Federal Lawsuit Filed Against PA Election Officials

(AP) – A federal lawsuit is seeking to force Pennsylvania election officials to change the way that voters’ signatures on mail-in ballots are verified. The suit, filed Friday, asserts that tens of thousands of voters are at risk of being disenfranchised in the fall presidential election. The suit was filed by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and two individual voters. It seeks to force election officials to give voters the chance to fix ballots that are either missing signatures, or where there’s a perceived signature mismatch. The Wolf administration declined to comment on the suit.