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That when they mail the ballot out to voters, and i know that when they receive that ballot back on or before election day by 8 pm. so, whether the voter puts their birthday instead of the date, or something like that, really has nothing to do with whether the vote if its a registered voter whos eligible to vote, or if its that voters vote. it is a meaningless technicality. unfortunately, the way the laws written, the court of tougher to the way the laws written, consequently we are going to see...

Envelope and put their ballot in it. thousands of people got this wrong in the state of pennsylvania. it is minor error relatively, but at the end of the day, that might have invalidated their ballots. there is litigation right now over what to do with them. now they will not be counted on election, day but will they be treated as valid? that is one to watch. you have a very very close senate race for governor and senator at the end of the day, those vote may not be counted and that could be the...

A date error on the outer envelope, that could have a big impact. cnns brian todd has the impact for us. brian. >> laura, alison, there is a real scramble to count all of the absentee and mail-in ballots in pennsylvania because between philadelphia and pittsburgh, about 4400 of those are in danger of being rejected. why? because they were incorrectly dated on the envelopes. these are the envelopes that you sign here and you date here. in philadelphia about 4400 people did not date this properly,...

And republicans who can be election workers. there are challenges there. >> weve got these challenges as you lay, lg idea of how to cure the ballot, the idea of clerical error in terms of the date of the envelope if it is on the outside, whether those can be cured before the election day. we are hours away now so the curing period is probably not there. but we are saying for election day, weve already seen in places like arizona for example, that there have been acts of possible voter intimidati...

Not going to be counted. it gives them an opportunity to still have their vote count. and they are both vote find them by email, if they provided an email address, and also posting lists of voters who for one fatal defect or another, have their ballot brought into question. whether it is not signing it, not dating it, or putting it in what is called the secrecy envelope that the ballot goes inside of. then the secrecy envelope goes in the outer declaration envelope. >> the fact that the majority...

Pennsylvania, mail-in and absentee votes accounted for about a third of the votes. laura, allison. >> brian, thank you very much. joining us now is alex schmidt, is the commissioner of philadelphia. all, thank you for being here. how big of a problem is at these 4400 ballots between pittsburgh and philadelphia that somebody forgot to put the date on the outer envelope? >> well, for a state like pennsylvania, which is very much a swing state, and will likely have a race for the united states sena...