The justices didn’t mince words about it, either. Clearly annoyed by the public declaration by Bucks County Commissioners Chair Diane Ellis-Marseglia, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously and quickly ordered all counties to abide by previous court rulings excluding undated or misdated ballots from the counting process.
And just in case Ellis-Marseglia and Bob Casey are too obtuse to read fine print, the justices bolded the point in their per curiam decision:
The Court hereby ASSUMES its King’s Bench authority over the instant Application, see 42 Pa.C.S. § 502, only to DIRECT that all Respondents, including the Boards of Elections in Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia County, SHALL COMPLY with the prior rulings of this Court in which we have clarified that mail-in and absentee ballots that fail to comply with the requirements of the…
