Pennsylvania certifies primary election in 64 of 67 counties

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania has licensed the outcomes of main elections from 64 of 67 counties, leaving out three counties in a rising authorized dispute over whether or not to rely mail-in ballots on which the voter didn’t handwrite a date, state officers stated Wednesday.

Certification of the remaining three counties — Berks, Fayette and Lancaster — will happen as soon as litigation is resolved, Gov. Tom Wolf’s Division of State stated in a press release.

The Might 17 main election included nominating contests for U.S. Senate, governor, Congress and many of the Legislature.

The division sued the three counties final week searching for a courtroom order requiring them to supply main election outcomes that embrace mail-in ballots on whose envelope the voter didn’t handwrite a date.

In a courtroom submitting, Fayette County stated the state didn’t have the authority to require it to rely these ballots. Plus, the state’s lawsuit missed a deadline to enchantment a county election board resolution and courts haven’t but settled separate lawsuits over whether or not to rely the ballots, it stated.

The query of whether or not to rely such mail-in ballots goes again to the presidential election of 2020.

Some Democratic-controlled counties have insisted on counting the ballots, saying the regulation’s requirement {that a} mail-in voter should hand write a date has no legit function in figuring out whether or not the poll is authorized and throwing it out violates a voters’ rights.

A third U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals panel and a state Commonwealth Courtroom choose have agreed. An enchantment of the federal courtroom resolution is pending earlier than the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.