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In their effort to reduce access to voting, the GOP win in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court directly led to the discarding of military write-in ballots for Trump, because they had not been placed in secrecy envelopes. LINK
Because these ballots were returned in envelopes similar to absentee ballot requests, elections officials opened them. If the ballots weren't then enclosed in another envelope which shielded the actual vote being cast, they may have been considered “naked ballots,” a term used to describe mail ballots returned without the voter's intent being protected.
If that's the case, which again isn't clear, that meant that elections officials who were opening the envelopes to see what they contained would have had to discard the votes, given a recent ruling by the state's Supreme Court.
The Associated Press reported on that decision...
“(I)n wins for Republicans,” the report continued, the court “rejected requests to let voters who aren’t disabled give their mail-in ballot to someone else to deliver; to require counties to let voters fix disqualifying problems with their mail-in ballots, such as not signing their return envelope; and to require counties to count mailed-in ballots that arrive without a secrecy envelope.”
Because these ballots were returned in envelopes similar to absentee ballot requests, elections officials opened them. If the ballots weren't then enclosed in another envelope which shielded the actual vote being cast, they may have been considered “naked ballots,” a term used to describe mail ballots returned without the voter's intent being protected.
If that's the case, which again isn't clear, that meant that elections officials who were opening the envelopes to see what they contained would have had to discard the votes, given a recent ruling by the state's Supreme Court.
The Associated Press reported on that decision...
“(I)n wins for Republicans,” the report continued, the court “rejected requests to let voters who aren’t disabled give their mail-in ballot to someone else to deliver; to require counties to let voters fix disqualifying problems with their mail-in ballots, such as not signing their return envelope; and to require counties to count mailed-in ballots that arrive without a secrecy envelope.”
