Undated Mail Ballots Are No Longer Valid in Pennsylvania
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Right now. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:29.0 | A federal appeals court upholds Pennsylvania's ban on |
| 0:33.4 | undated mail ballots as the Republican Party tries to get comfortable with |
| 0:37.9 | early and absentee voting. Plus former crypto king Sam Bankman Freed is sentenced to 25 years in prison. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:49.9 | We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Kim Strassal and Alicia Finley. |
| 0:57.0 | Judges in Pennsylvania have been arguing about these undated mail ballots in Pennsylvania for four years now. The first case goes back to |
| 1:05.1 | 2020. There was a Republican state Senate candidate who was ahead. She was |
| 1:10.5 | winning that race until a court ordered the counting of about 300 undated mail ballots in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:17.6 | And just to describe what this looks like in Pennsylvania, you have a mail vote. |
| 1:21.8 | You have an envelope that it goes inside to send it back and you're supposed to sign it and then there's a field that says date or today's date and you're supposed to fill it out with the date that you are filling out the ballot before you send it back in. |
| 1:34.8 | There have been a couple cases now in federal court about these undated mail ballots and whether |
| 1:40.0 | federal law requires them to be counted. |
| 1:44.0 | And Kim, the latest is a ruling on Wednesday |
| 1:48.0 | we got from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. |
| 1:51.5 | And interestingly, this panel went the opposite direction as a previous |
| 1:56.2 | panel of the Third Circuit and their opinion is that no the state law that says you have to |
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