Republicans just took yet another election-related L in court. (via thereidout Blog)
involved Republicans effectively waging an all-hands-on-deck effort to bar counties from alerting voters of ballot mistakes and allowing them to fix them. The plaintiffs included the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Pennsylvania GOP.
After a state judge rejected the Republicans' argument last month, they filed an appeal with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The court — which is down to six members after its chief justice died nearly a month ago — deadlocked on the appeal on Friday, automatically keeping the lower court’s ruling intact.
Studies in multiple states have repeatedly shown racial disparities in the ballots tossed for mistakes,Republicans trying to delegitimize Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss have zeroed in on ballot curing in Pennsylvania as an excuse, arguing the state’s lack of a uniform law dictating how each county should go about seeking fixes to incomplete ballots means said ballots should be tossed.
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, for example, falsely claimed ballot curing in Democratic strongholds “tip[ped] the scales of an election to functionally favor the Democrat Party.”Pennsylvania’s use of ballot curing was bipartisan. And as for the total number of those votes deciding the election, the report claims there were “too few of them to make much of a dent.”