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   Hotep 悪い? (bad_banner@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 22:55:58 JST Hotep 悪い?
   >HARRISBURG, Pa. — A technical requirement that Pennsylvania voters write accurate dates on the exterior envelope of mail-in ballots was again the subject of a court proceeding on Thursday as advocates argued the mandate unfairly leads to otherwise valid votes being thrown out.
   
   >A five-judge Commonwealth Court panel heard about two hours of argument in a case that was filed in May, even though the date requirement has been upheld both by the state Supreme Court and the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 22:55:58 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @Bad_Banner what happened to postmarked by X
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     Hotep 悪い? (bad_banner@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 00:36:37 JST Hotep 悪い?

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     @BowsacNoodle Great question
     
     >"County elections officials say they do not use the handwritten envelope dates to determine whether mail-in votes have been submitted in time. Mail-in ballots are generally postmarked, elections officials process and time-stamp them, and the presence of the ballots themselves is enough evidence to show that they arrived on time to be counted before the 8 p.m. Election Day deadline."
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     Hotep 悪い? (bad_banner@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 00:36:37 JST Hotep 悪い?

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     @BowsacNoodle So if county election officials don't use the dates written on the envelopes, why does any of this matter? It seems like the GOP in PA are requiring that the handwritten dates on the envelopes **along with** the postmark, the court might find it an undo burden on the voter.
     
     
     But at the same time, if ballots keep coming in even after 8PM...
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