Challenges in key state aren’t valid, says ACLU, and appear to be mass effort through mail-merge process
Last Friday, she said she was stunned to receive a notice from her local board of elections telling her that her ballot was being challenged by a name she did not recognize. The challenge said she was living outside of the country, not a member of the military, and therefore was not registered to vote inand could not cast a ballot. She could call or write to the election office in Lycoming county in north central Pennsylvania or appear at a hearing on 8 November.
“There was a fear factor, there was kind of an implied threat that I’d done something wrong,” she said.someone to be a resident of the state to vote. But the challenges are not valid, the ACLU says, because federal law allows American citizens to vote in federal elections in the last place in the US they lived if they are living overseas and are unsure if they will return to the US. The ACLU said the challenges appear to be a mass effort done through a mail-merge process.
“The proper course of action for any county receiving mass challenges to these federally qualified ‘overseas voters’ is to summarily reject the challenges as both procedurally and substantively deficient,” lawyers for the ACLU wrote in a letter to all 67 counties in the state. “Counties should formally dismiss or deny the challenges as quickly as possible to minimize any delay or disruption to the canvassing process,” lawyers for the ACLU wrote in a letter to all 67 counties in the state.
So far officials in Bucks, Lancaster, Lehigh, York, Cumberland, Dauphin, Beaver, Centre, and Lycoming county have all received challenges, said Andy Hoover, an ACLU spokesman.challenging the eligibility of overseas voters that a federal judge said was based on “phantom fears of foreign malfeasance.” The Election Research Institute is led by Heather Honey, a prominentPennsylvania allows voters to challenge the mail-in ballot of other voters.
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