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Pennsylvania's mail-voting law is constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, upholding the 2019 measure that allows any voter to use mail ballots.
The law has been used by millions of voters to cast ballots over the last two years, including the 2020 presidential election in which Joe Biden defeated then-President Donald Trump. Months before that Election Day, Trump began attacking mail voting, and Republicans since then have sought to dismantle the law.
A group of Republican lawmakers and a Republican county commissioner sued last summer, saying the law violates the state Constitution. Because the Constitution explicitly describes situations allowing absentee voting, they argued, it's unconstitutional to provide mail voting in other cases.
The state Supreme Court disagreed Tuesday.
"We find no restriction in our Constitution on the General Assembly's ability to create universal mail-in voting," Justice Christine Donohue wrote, joined by Chief Justice Baer and Justices Debra Todd and Kevin Dougherty.
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s mail voting law after a long legal fight
A group of Republican lawmakers and a Republican county commissioner sued last summer, saying the law violates the state Constitution.
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Pennsylvania's mail-in voting law is upheld by the state's Supreme Court
All voters in the key swing state can continue casting ballots by mail now that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a law that was challenged by some GOP state lawmakers who helped pass it.
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