I’m confused. I’m not understanding what is being debated here, and who has ruled on what exactly.
A voter mails in a ballot, and the envelope is supposed to have a handwritten date on it, which I assume is the date that the voter filled out the ballot? Or mailed it? This date may or may not agree with the postmark on the envelope. Is that the comparison being made in determining whether the ballot should even be considered? That’s what it sounds like in one part of the article at least.
But then previous rulings by the Penn SC (if I understand correctly) say that any mistake in this regard is immaterial to the soundness of the ballot, since that handwritten date is “not used”. But it sounds some “lower court” below that 3rd Circuit that is NOT the Penn SC also agreed that it is immaterial? But now the 3rd Circuit is saying, yes it IS material, and therefore mistakes in the handwritten date on the envelope (which I still don’t understand how those would be determined or what that date even means) cancel out the ballot completely.
This is such anti-democratic, fascist bullshit that I cannot fathom how 2 Democrat-appointed justices agreed with it, and overruled earlier court decisions.