State Supreme Court Debating Main-In Ballots – Again

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will again consider whether voters should have to write the accurate date by hand on return envelopes used to send their completed mail-in ballots to be counted. The justices said Friday they will decide whether the dating rule for absentee and mail ballot return envelopes violates a state constitutional provision that elections must be free and equal. The exterior envelope dates aren’t used to verify whether a ballot has been received before the deadline. The case involves 69 mail-in ballots from two state House special elections that a Philadelphia judge had said should be counted even though they lacked the handwritten return envelope dates.