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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 it's a registered voter who's eligible to vote, or if it's 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 thousands of voters votes in jeopardy as a result. >> our election result officials going to be ...

A date error on the outer envelope, that could have a big impact. cnn's 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, or put no date on, and those ballots are in danger of being rejected and that is according to a ne...

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 senate that will determine control of the senate, it is distressing mainly because it is a transparent a...

Cast by eligible voters that will not be counted as a result of this one. well, they have their work cut out for them. we can see if they have these 4400 voters, and if it happens this week. thank you very much for explaining this challenge to us. so laura, his vote is that they are register voters and their votes to count, but the law has said that they have to date accurately that outer secrecy envelope. >> that was part of the concern when this was first put in place, which was how would you get the message out to voters to ensure that they were doing it correctly, because there is always c...

In philadelphia and here in the pittsburgh area, about 4,400 people did not put a date at all or put the incorrect date on there. under a new ruling by the pennsylvania supreme court just a couple days ago, those votes cannot be counted. the fetterman campaign and state democrats are suing in federal court to try to reverse that ruling. thousands of these mail-in ballots are in danger of not being counted because of poorly dated envelopes. there is a remedy. you can come in and cure your vote at a county election office here in pittsburgh or in philadelphia. you had all day today and you have ...