SCOTUS reinstates Virginia’s voter purge program
With less than a week until Election Day, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) voter purge program that removed several U.S. citizens from the rolls. Lower courts blocked the program for violating federal law by removing voters too close to the election.
According to the order, the three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — opposed the decision.
Pennsylvania voting cases in full swing
In a win for voters, a Pennsylvania court ruled that Philadelphia must count mail-in ballots missing a correct handwritten date from its September special election. The state Supreme Court recently declined to weigh in on the date issue before the November general election.
Pennsylvania courts extended deadlines for early in-person mail voting in Bucks and Lehigh counties following lawsuits from the Trump campaign and county election officials, respectively.
A right-wing group filed a lawsuit to block up to 277,000 Pennsylvanians — who the group alleges may be ineligible to vote — from casting a ballot in the November election.
A Pennsylvania court permitted Montgomery County to continue its mobile voter services van – which travels across the county for voters to return and fix issues with their mail-in ballots – given the county provides 24-hour notice of the van’s schedule.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party filed a lawsuit alleging up to 20,000 voters in Erie County still have not received their requested mail-in ballots. Democrats asked the court to take measures to ensure these voters can still cast ballots.
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