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Monday marks thirty years since the blizzard of 1993 – dubbed by meteorologists as "The Storm of the Century" in the '90s – debilitated much of the Delaware Valley.

ALLENTOWN – After the U.S. Supreme Court declared as moot a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which counted 257 Lehigh County ballots missing the date on their outer envelopes in last year’s general election for a Lehigh County judgeship and remanded the case to its original federal court – plaintiff counsel is now seeking almost $250,000 in attorney’s fees.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court declared as moot a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which counted 257 Lehigh County ballots missing the date on their outer envelopes in last November’s general election for a Lehigh County judgeship.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court denied an application for stay pending certiorari in a federal lawsuit first brought in Allentown, concerning whether or not 257 Lehigh County ballots missing the date on their outer envelopes will be officially counted in last November’s general election.

Mail-in ballots that are not dated must be counted, a federal appeals court said in an opinion that says this is exactly the type of disenfranchisement that Congress sought to prevent.

ALLENTOWN – A federal judge has denied an attempt by five local voters to secure a preliminary injunction to prevent the certification of results from November’s general election by the Lehigh County Board of Elections, since the plaintiffs’ votes were set to be discarded due to their signatures lacking an accompanying date.

ALLENTOWN – A quintet of local plaintiffs whose mail-in votes from November’s general election were set to be discarded due to their signatures lacking an accompanying date have sued the Lehigh County Board of Elections in federal court, seeking an emergency preliminary injunction to prevent the certification of the results.

Five Lehigh County voters who did not write a date on their mail-in ballots' return envelope filed a federal lawsuit to stop certification of the results.