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FILE - Mail-in and absentee ballots are seen at the elections warehouse in Pittsburgh, April 18, 2024. Elected commissioners in Washington County , Penn., were sued Monday, July 1, over a policy adopted for this year’s primary in which people whose mail-in ballots were disqualified for technical violations were not informed in time to fix the errors.
The lawsuit filed in county common pleas court said the policy resulted in 259 voters being disenfranchised and many of those voters still do not realize it. The seven voters who are suing, ages 45 to 85, all had their mail-in ballots invalidated because of incomplete or missing dates, the lawsuit stated. One also failed to sign the exterior envelope and another signed in the wrong place.
Washington County had notified voters their ballots were filled out incorrectly and gave those voters a chance to fix them until this year's April 23 primary. For this year's primary, the Washington commissioners voted 2-1 to not allow voters to cure improper ballots and had staff mark them in the statewide elections software as "received," a status that does not tell voters their ballots won't be counted.
Retired occupational therapist Bruce Jacobs, 65, one of the plaintiffs, said in a video news conference that the primary was long over by the time he learned his vote had been invalidated because he failed to sign and date the return envelope. He said he felt deceived and his rights were denied.
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