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A Republican candidate for a county judgeship in Pennsylvania has brought his election battle to the Supreme Court in a fight that could affect statewide elections and the fate of undated mail-in ballots.
David Ritter leads Democrat Zachary Cohen by 71 votes in their race for Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas. Last week, Mr. Ritter asked the high court in a petition submitted to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. to block a lower court’s decision allowing officials to count undated mail-in ballots, requesting the justices decide if the state election law runs afoul of federal law.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit had set aside Pennsylvania’s law requiring mail-in ballots to be dated and signed, allowing potentially 257 undated ballots to be counted in Mr. Ritter and Mr. Cohen’s race. --->READ MORE HERE
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. blocked officials from counting undated mail-in ballots — for now — after a Republican candidate for a county judgeship took his election fight to the high court.
David Ritter, who leads Democrat Zachary Cohen by 71 votes in their race for Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas, asked the high court in a filing to halt a lower court’s decision that let officials count undated mail-in ballots, requesting the justices decide whether state election law runs afoul of federal law.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had set aside Pennsylvania’s law requiring mail-in ballots to be dated and signed, allowing potentially 257 undated ballots to be counted in the race between Mr. Ritter and Mr. Cohen. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a related story:
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