During a press briefing on Tuesday, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) was asked about a federal judge ruling that mail-in ballots cannot be invalidated if the handwritten dates on the exterior return envelopes are inaccurate.
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00:00U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter has ruled that six, six, seven
00:06counties in Pennsylvania may not invalidate mail-in ballots simply
00:10because they lacked accurate handwritten dates on their exterior return
00:13envelopes. Just your thoughts on that ruling from her? Yeah, look, I mean,
00:17I've got a long history on this. I was the attorney general of the Commonwealth
00:20for six years and obviously have continued to protect voting rights as
00:24governor over the last two plus. And I'm always on the side of enfranchisement,
00:29not disenfranchisement. I believe that those issues in terms of the dating on
00:36the outside of the ballot, if everything else is in order, shouldn't
00:40be a reason why someone loses their vote, whoever they vote for, Republican,
00:44Democrat, whoever. And I think, you know, seeing the court agree with that
00:48is just yet another example of where the courts have sided with the voters
00:54and on the side of enfranchisement, whoever they choose. I would assume the
00:57other side is going to appeal and this issue will continue on. But it is good
01:02to see yet another judge, this time at the federal level, side with our voters
01:07and making sure their voices can be heard come election time.