"State law requires completed mail-in ballots to be sent back in two envelopes: an inner secrecy envelope and an outer envelope. Election officials do not use the handwritten date to verify that a ballot was received by the legal deadline."
"Republican groups contend that the ballots of voters who have not followed the rules should not be counted, while voting rights groups argue that state and federal laws protect eligible Pennsylvanians' votes from getting disenfranchised because of a mistake."
"In recent elections, Democrats have outnumbered Republicans in casting mail-in ballots, a method of voting that was opened to all registered voters in Pennsylvania in 2019 with bipartisan support at the time from the state's lawmakers."
"To eliminate confusion and litigation about mail-in ballots, the bipartisan advisory board on election law called for rewriting certain rules, as noted in a report last year."
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