The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this week in Ritter v. Migliori upends an effort – at least temporarily -- to use the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act to block the “enforcement of commonsense mail ballot qualification requirements,” says Lisa Dixon, executive director of the Lawyers Democracy Fund (LDF).
Pennsylvania House Republican leadership has threatened members of the Lehigh County Board of Elections with impeachment over reports that they approved the counting of undated mail ballots, a move they allege violates the state’s election laws.