From https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/12/pennsylvania-court-orders-that-certain-ballots-may-not-legally-be-counted/
So it does appear that voters in Pennsylvania who mail in their ballots actually did have until six days after the election to cure some problems -- those involving the lack of a proof of identification -- but apparently not others such as placing the ballot in a privacy sleeve.Quote:
Here is the explanation from Ronn Blitzer (Fox News):;
A Pennsylvania judge ruled in favor of the Trump campaign Thursday, ordering that the state may not count ballots where the voters needed to provide proof of identification and failed to do so by Nov. 9.
State law said that voters have until six days after the electionthis year that was Nov. 9to cure problems regarding a lack of proof of identification. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots could be accepted three days after Election Day, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar submitted guidance that said proof of identification could be provided up until Nov. 12, which is six days from the ballot acceptance deadline. That guidance was issued two days before Election Day.
[The court's decision] was in line with the Trump campaign's argument, which was that there was no basis in the state's law to extend the identification deadline, and that Boockvar did not have the power to unilaterally change it.