{"id":190775,"date":"2024-10-15T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T20:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/?post_type=case&#038;p=190775"},"modified":"2024-10-15T22:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T02:59:04","slug":"baxter-v-philadelphia-county-board-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"case","link":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/cases\/baxter-v-philadelphia-county-board-of-elections","title":{"rendered":"Baxter v. 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Plaintiffs urge the courts to rule that enforcing the irrelevant envelope-dating requirement to disenfranchise eligible voters violates the Pennsylvania Constitution's Free and Equal Elections Clause.","call_to_action":null,"summary":"This case is one of several successive lawsuits challenging the requirement that Pennsylvania voters who vote by mail ballot must write the date on the outer mail ballot return envelope and will have their mail ballots set aside and left unopened if they either omit or write an \"incorrect\" date. This requirement serves no purpose other than to disenfranchise voters. It plays no role in establishing that a ballot was returned to the board of elections before the receipt deadline, or that the voter was eligible, and it isn't used to prevent fraud.\r\n\r\nOn September 17, 2024, the Philadelphia Board of Elections administered a special election for open seats in State House Districts 195 and 201. Plaintiffs, each an eligible and registered voter, submitted mail ballots before the Election Day deadline, but didn't include a handwritten date on the outer return envelope. As a result, they -- along with 67 other voters -- were disenfranchised, and their votes went uncounted.\r\n\r\n老澳门开奖结果 joined the 老澳门开奖结果 of Pennsylvania, the Public Interest Law Center, and Arnold &amp; Porter to represent the voters.  On September 25, 2024, the Court of Common Pleas granted Plaintiffs' petition, ruling that the Board's decision to disqualify their mail ballots because of two envelope-dating errors violated their right to vote under the Free and Equal Elections Clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution. 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