Supreme Court Backs Republican in Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots Case

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated an appeals court decision that required Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots even if there is no date on the envelope.

โ€œThe judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit with instructions to dismiss the case as moot,โ€ wrote Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson (pdf), siding with David Ritter, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for a judgeship.

They also threw out a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appealsโ€™ ruling that allowed the counting of mail-in ballots in the race that Ritter had sought to remove because voters did not write the date on the ballots. Ritter lost his 2021 bid to serve on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas after 257 mail-in ballots that didnโ€™t have dates were counted.

Pennsylvania Republican legislators and conservatives filed amicus briefs saying the 3rd Circuitโ€™s ruling threatened the integrity of the 2022 midterm elections.

But the Supreme Courtโ€™s action on Tuesday means that the 3rd Circuit ruling cannot be used as a precedent in the three states covered by this regional federal appellate courtโ€”Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delawareโ€”to allow the counting of ballots with minor flaws such as the voter failing to fill in the date. Vacating the ruling does not change Ritterโ€™s loss in his race.

Previous Ruling

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court denied Ritterโ€™s attempt to block the counting of ballots that lacked dates. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissented. Days before that (pdf), a panel on the 3rd Circuit ordered the counting of the undated ballots.

Alito had written that the lower courtโ€™s ruling โ€œcould well affect the outcomeโ€ of the elections this year as voters go to the polls on Nov. 8 in midterms in which Republicans are seeking to seize control of Congress from the Democrats.

Byย Jack Phillips

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