Den tidiga röstningen är olöst i Pennsylvania och demokratiska och republikanska grupper bråkar över reglerna för poströstning. Demokraterna klagar på att reglerna är för strikta. Republikanerna hävdar att hela systemet är kaputt. NTD bryter ner de växande stämningarna på båda sidorna.
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Pennsylvania is an important state that is crucial for the presidential candidate's chances of winning in November.
With 19 electoral votes, one of the highest among all states, Pennsylvania is among the most polluted.
As in other states, Republicans and Democrats stand against each other in dozens of elections this year.
Their biggest disagreement? Post votes.
This dispute has been going on since the election of 2020.
Now both sides are armed with groups of lawyers who cover Pennsylvania's court proceedings in several counties.
Last month, a panel of state judges decided that two of the state's largest counties could not cast wrongly dated post votes.
The decision is an understatement of an electoral law that flags post votes with wrongly dated envelopes.
Liberal groups claim that the decision means that voters lose their right to vote.
The judge said that even if the date of the decision has been discussed in many states, this is the first to claim that it violates Pennsylvania's constitution.
Some of the plaintiffs in this case filed a similar appeal to the federal court.
In March, a shared federal appeal court decided that the decision does not go against federal laws on civil rights.
But the judge in the federal court, Ellen Ziesler, wrote that since the date on the envelope is not used to determine that a seat is in the right time,
that a voter is entitled to vote, or that it is a fraud, he refuses to count it against the fundamental right to vote.
Governor Josh Shapiro said in a statement that it was a victory for Pennsylvania's fundamental right to vote.
But Pennsylvania's Supreme Court decided on Friday, September 13, that post votes must have the right date to be counted.
In 2020, the former President Trump questioned the validity of post votes.
Part of the state's Supreme Court then decided that citizens should not be deprived of their right to vote if there is no evidence of fraud.
At the same time, a large panel of judges refused in the federal appeal court to re-examine the citizen's right to vote at that time.
The case from 2020 is now back in the lower court to be tried according to the Constitution's clause on equal protection.
In 2020, 1.7 million Democrats in Pennsylvania sent in their election tickets by mail, compared to about 600,000 Republicans.
Despite Trump's doubts, Republican groups in Pennsylvania are rallying their voters to accept mail-in voting.
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans advanced a bill in March to eliminate election drop boxes.
And in June, Pennsylvania voters sued the state and federal court, claiming the entire election system is flawed.
The legal action, called a writ of mandamus, asked the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
to require state and federal agencies to address what they believe is mass fraud in the election system.
Department of State Secretary Al Schmidt, Attorney General Michelle Henry, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
and several state offices are also named as defendants, along with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Arlene Richards, NTD News.
