Over 1,000 Allegheny mail-in ballots won't be counted unless cured by voters

Update: Allegheny County officials reported Monday evening that 106 people visited the elections division to cure their ballots.

More than 1,000 Allegheny County voters must cure their mail-in ballots or their votes won’t be counted, county election officials said Sunday.

The county has released a list of voters whose ballots were either incorrectly dated or did not include a date. The list was published after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously ruled Nov. 1 that state officials cannot count votes from mail-in or absentee ballots that lack accurate, handwritten dates on their return envelopes.

Impacted voters can cure their ballots by heading to the elections division office in Downtown Pittsburgh on Monday or Tuesday, authorizing a designated agent to cure the ballot at the office or voting provisionally at their regular polling place.

The list of impacted voters can be found on the county’s website.

Westmoreland County election officials said they haven’t looked at the mail in ballots and won’t until tomorrow. Given that, they don’t know how many deficient mail ballots were returned.

Westmoreland officials said anyone in the county who suspects they didn’t date, sign or made another error are being told to go to the polls Tuesday and vote with a provisional ballot.

More than 850,000 Pennsylvanians have voted by mail in the hotly contested 2022 election. On Friday, several groups represented by the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to have votes from mail-in or absentee ballots counted even if they aren’t correctly dated.

Election Day is Tuesday.

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