The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear claims by President Trump’s campaign challenging approximately 8,000 mail-in ballots, which the campaign insists should be disqualified because they were improperly filled out.
According to the claim, the ballots in question bear voter signatures, yet do not contain hand-written names, addresses or dates on the outside of their return envelopes.
The move comes after a lower court in Philadelphia denied the campaign’s request on Friday, finding that voters’ names and addresses were already pre-printed on the envelopes, while state election law left the definition of ‘filling out’ a ballot ambiguous, according to Bloomberg.
On Wednesday, the highest court in the state agreed to exercise emergency jurisdiction to rule on whether those ballots should be disqualified – and will not consider any allegations of fraud and irregularity.
Of note, there are two Republicans and five Democrats on the PA Supreme Court…
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