Allowing counties to begin readying – or precanvassing – ballots for tabulation seven days before election and removing issues that disqualified a ballot from being counted are included in a bill that now is positioned to receive a House vote.
Legislation that would give counties a seven-day head start on getting ballots ready for tabulating and require voters be given the chance to correct minor issues to ensure their ballot gets counted won passage by a state House committee on Monday.
The measure also would require counties to notify a voter if they fail to sign or date the outer envelope containing their ballot to give them a chance to correct it so their votes can be counted. Currently,Another change in this bill is it alters the deadline for applying for mail-in ballot by mail to 11 days before an election from the current seven days. But it would open up the opportunity for a voter to go in person to the county election office to apply for a ballot up until 5 p.m.
“There’s nothing in the constitution about secrecy envelopes. It is about a secret vote,” responded Nick Himebaugh, the committee’s Democratic executive director. Rep. Brad Roae of Crawford County, the ranking Republican on the committee, called the legislation a “solution in search of problem.” Kenyatta argued despite those grants, the state is underfunding counties to administer elections. He further said the bill’s critics are misunderstanding that the bill is intended to clear up the bottlenecks in the election administration system that have arisen since the 2019 law passed that introduced no-excuse mail-in voting to Pennsylvania..
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