In Pennsylvania, there is a closely watched U.S. More Democratic voters than Republicans cast votes by mail in the 2020 election. Trump has made false claims that the election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud.
Numerous Republican-led states have enacted tougher voting rules, including for mail-in ballots, in the wake of Republican Donald Trump's presidential re-election loss in 2020 to Democrat Joe Biden. The law targeted practices common in Southern states during the era of racial segregation that used minor ballot mistakes to block Black people from voting. The Civil Rights Act provision at issue prohibits officials from disqualifying a voter's ballot for an error that is not "material" to determining whether the person was qualified to vote, such as their age or citizenship.
The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Pennsylvania Republican legislators echoed Ritter's warning. Ritter told the Supreme Court that unless the 3rd Circuit ruling was wiped off the books, it would allow undated mail-in ballots to be counted in future elections in Pennsylvania and would "threaten to invalidate countless regulations of mail-in voting" nationwide.
8 in midterm elections in which Republicans are seeking to seize control of Congress from the Democrats. Alito wrote that the 3rd Circuit ruling "could well affect the outcome" of elections this year. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from that decision. Supreme Court in June denied Ritter's bid to block the counting of the undated ballots. In his appeal, Ritter argued that mail-in ballot rules improve election administration and deter fraud. The 3rd Circuit found that the requirement is "immaterial" to determining their qualifications as voters. Under Pennsylvania law, voters are required to write the date on the outer envelope of a mail-in ballot. The 3rd Circuit had ruled that invalidating the undated ballots would violate a provision of a landmark 1964 federal law called the Civil Rights Act aimed at ensuring that minor ballot errors do not deny someone the right to vote. Vacating the ruling does not change Ritter's loss in his race. The high court's action means that the 3rd Circuit ruling cannot be used as a precedent in the three states covered by this regional federal appellate court - Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware - to allow the counting of ballots with minor flaws such as the voter failing to fill in the date. Circuit Court of Appeals as requested by David Ritter, who lost his 2021 bid for a spot on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas to a Democratic rival by five votes after 257 absentee ballots without date notations were counted. The justices vacated the ruling by the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an unsuccessful Republican candidate for a judgeship in Pennsylvania and threw out a lower court's ruling that had allowed the counting of mail-in ballots in the race that he had sought to exclude because voters neglected to write the date on them.
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