Last-Resort Ballots Are Increasingly Being Rejected For Technical Errors in Pennsylvania. Why?
When Marryka Beck didn’t receive her mail ballot as expected ahead of the November 2024 election, the West Virginia University student knew she would have to drive back to Pennsylvania and vote provisionally on Election Day.
At her polling place in Washington County, Beck says she followed the staff’s instructions. She said that after she had finished marking her choices on the provisional ballot, poll workers told her to hand it back without placing the ballot in its secrecy envelope.
“They said they were going to fill out the envelope because they were unsure how to do it, so they were going to call the director,” she said in an interview with Votebeat and Spotlight PA. Then, two weeks later, “I got the letter that said my ballot wasn’t counted.”
Beck, 22, said her mother called the election office and was told the ballot was rejected because part of the section to be filled out by the poll worker hadn’t been completed, though Washington County officials told Votebeat and Spotlight PA it was because Beck hadn’t signed the envelope in one of the two required spots.
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