Pennsylvania: Legal challenges are preventing some Pennsylvania voters from receiving their absentee ballots with just about a month to go till the Commonwealth’s
Primary.
Pending legal cases against two statewide candidates, one for U.S. Senate, the other for President, and a ballot question, the official ballots haven’t been finalized.
"They're upset, they're going away, they don't have their absentees," Berks County Elections Director Debbie Olivieri said.
It remains undecided, for example, whether a Constitutional Amendment that would increase the mandatory retirement age for judges will be on the ballot. And the courts have not decided a challenge to Cruz’s eligibility to be President or Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Vodvarka's candidacy.
Pennsylvania's Election Code states that March 2 is the last day the Court of Common Pleas or the Commonwealth Court should render decisions in cases involving objections to nomination petitions.
Jim Koval, a spokesman with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, said it’s unclear when the cases will be settled, leaving counties across the state to decide whether to mail out absentee ballots that may end up being inaccurate come April 26 or wait and risk some voters missing a chance to vote.
Many counties are holding back on printing and sending absentee ballots. Under state law, they must mail them by April 12.
Texas: A group of Hispanic voters and Rep. Marc Veasy of Fort Worth have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the state from enforcing the new Voter ID law during the General election in November.
A federal judge struck the law down, but a Federal appeals court blocked that order two years ago, ruling that the state should be allowed to enforce the law in order to avoid confusion, because the 2014 election was so near.
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