In a rare win for election integrity, a federal appeals court has just ruled that

mail-in ballots over in Pennsylvania do indeed have to be signature dated in order

to be considered valid.

This puts an end to a two and a half year long legal battle,

which really underscores the difficulty

of these different election integrity efforts.

Let me give you a bit of backstory in terms of how this case played out as well as what it means

for both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well aswind the clock back three years. In 2021 there was a

local election in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania for the position of county judge.

The two main candidates were as follows, Mr. Zachary Cohen, the Democrat, and Mr. David Ritter,

the Republican.

And initially, after the polls closed and all the votes were counted the Republican

candidate Mr David Ritter he was scheduled to be the winner of the race by a very thin margin

of just 71 votes however before he could claim his victory,

something you can say interesting happened.

257 mail-in ballots came in without a date written on them.

257 undated ballots came back to the election's office.

Now here's the thing.

Having a date written on your ballot envelope is something that is required by Pennsylvania state law.

Pennsylvania law, it stipulates that voters are mandated to write the date on the outer envelope

of their mail and ballot in order for their vote to actually be valid.

These 257 envelopes did not have a date written on them, and Mr Ritter citing state law tried to prevent these

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