Philadelphia Inquirer: “The state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state that’s seen as increasingly likely to determine who wins the White House, last week ordered officials to throw out ‘naked ballots’ — mail ballots that arrive without inner ‘secrecy envelopes.’ Pennsylvania uses a two-envelope mail ballot system: A completed ballot goes into a ‘secrecy envelope’ that has no identifying information, and then into a larger mailing envelope that the voter signs.”
“It’s unclear how many naked ballots there will be, because this is the first year any Pennsylvania voter can vote by mail, and most counties counted them in the June primary without tracking how many there were.”
Axios: “The decision to reject ‘naked ballots’ didn’t apply during the primary earlier this year, which was the first use of expanded mail-in voting, so it’s unclear how widespread the mistake may be. However, 6.4% of ballots were ‘naked’ during last November’s municipal election in Philadelphia, which was conducted under the more restrictive absentee system.”
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