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MADISON, Wis. -- A Dane County judge on Tuesday handed down two rulings allowing election officials to accept partial witness addresses on absentee ballots as long as the information is

ERIE – After a federal judge recently decided that undated mail-in ballots must be accepted as valid votes by all county boards of election in Pennsylvania – a decision to have tremendous import in next year’s presidential election, which will once again likely see the Keystone State as a battleground – the Republican Party’s state and national wings have appealed that decision.

ERIE – A federal judge recently decided that per the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act, undated mail-in ballots must be accepted as valid votes by all county boards of election in Pennsylvania – a decision to have tremendous import in next year’s presidential election, which will once again likely see the Keystone State as a battleground.

The week in appellate news.

U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter, seated at federal courthouse in Erie, issued precedent-setting ruling on mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.

A Pennsylvania judge ruled that undated mail-in ballots that arrive on time in the state should be counted.

 

A new set of opinions helped explain the court's earlier ruling. They also created a new opening for policies on dating ballots.

PHILADELPHIA – Despite a recent ruling from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth is no closer to having an undisputed answer on the validity of undated mail-in ballots.

ERIE – Two county boards of election have opposed litigation from six voters’ rights groups against acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh M. Chapman and all of the county boards of election statewide, in order to compel officials to accept undated mail-in ballots and “not disenfranchise voters based on an immaterial paperwork error.”