{"id":192355,"date":"2024-10-31T09:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T13:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/?post_type=case&#038;p=192355"},"modified":"2024-11-01T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:41:17","slug":"republican-national-committee-v-genser","status":"publish","type":"case","link":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/cases\/republican-national-committee-v-genser","title":{"rendered":"Republican National Committee v. 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The County later determined that it would not count their provisional ballots, and the voter\u2019s appealed, arguing that Pennsylvania law requires that when an eligible voter attempts to vote by mail but the mail ballot is rendered void due to some defect like lacking a secrecy envelope, the eligible voter may cast a provisional ballot and have that ballot counted notwithstanding the failed attempt to vote by mail.","call_to_action":null,"summary":"This case involves two voters who voted by provisional ballot in the 2024 Democratic Primary in April. These voters tried to vote by mail but their mail ballot packages were rejected because of a defect (in their case, a \u201cnaked ballot\u201d). Most counties in Pennsylvania have long let voters vote by provisional ballot in these circumstances based on Pennsylvania law, which says that counties \u201cshall count\u201d voters\u2019 provisional ballots in those circumstances. Butler County did not.\r\n\r\nThe voters appealed and won in the Commonwealth Court, after which the Republican Party, which intervened in the case, appealed and sought further review from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court take up this case and decide it before the election.\r\n\r\nOn October 23, 2024, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided the case in voters\u2019 favor, ruling that the Pennsylvania Election Code required their ballots to be counted.\r\n\r\nOn October 28, 2024, the Republican Party filed an application for a stay in the United States Supreme Court, based on a radical argument that this purely state law decision violated the U.S. Constitution, and asked the Supreme Court to intervene and order new rules for the treatment provisional ballots in Pennsylvania. The voters filed their response on October 30. 老澳门开奖结果 joined the 老澳门开奖结果 of Pennsylvania, the Public Interest Law Center, and Dechert LLP to represent the voters.","case_decision":"","featured_case":true,"legal_project":"","date_filed":null,"administration_challenged":"","constitutional_principle":[],"drupal_node_id":"","legal_documents":[{"court":1817,"documents":[{"document_options":"document","document":192539,"title":"Order Denying Stay ","subtitle":"","date_filed":"20241101","drupal_node_id":"","slug":"","child_documents":null},{"document_options":"document","document":192405,"title":"Reply Brief in Support of Emergency Application for a Stay Pending Disposition of Petition for Certiorari","subtitle":"","date_filed":"20241031","drupal_node_id":"","slug":"","child_documents":null},{"document_options":"document","document":192357,"title":"Response in Opposition of Genser and Matis","subtitle":"","date_filed":"20241031","drupal_node_id":"","slug":"","child_documents":null}]},{"court":null,"documents":[{"document_options":"document","document":192360,"title":"Opinion","subtitle":"","date_filed":"20240926","drupal_node_id":"","slug":"","child_documents":null}]}],"plaintiffs":"","co-counsel":"","press_releases_related_to_cases":[192542],"related_content_cases":"","related_content_documents":"","related_content_publications":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Republican National Committee v. 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