Pennsylvania must stop throwing out mail ballots over date errors, court rules

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12. And in that above image of the envelopes

the yellow "secrecy" envelope is shown actually blocking the barcode (for anonymity in the example) that is printed on the envelope to correspond with a voter. When an election worker gets the completed ballot, they are checking for the signature/date and presence of the secrecy envelope (where there is a circular hole in the outer envelope to quickly show the "yellow" if that inner envelope is there), and will then scan the barcode if everything looks good. The state then sends a notification to the voter that their ballot has been received (and although they changed the message recently, they usually indicate that it has been "recorded" pending any County actions).

I believe any ballot missing things, are set aside and tracked, to allow the submitter to correct the defects or "spoil" the ballot (a County prerogative) so that it gets discarded, and they can go in person to vote if they want (including by provisional ballot if applicable).

One of the other problems with the current state law ( "Act-77" ), was that the "curing" (correcting) of ballots (i.e., as above, the missing dates/signatures/inner envelope) was left vague so some Counties allow it and aggressively reach out to those voters with bad ballots, and others don't bother and tell the voters they are SOL, and this has caused a lot of consternation of "fairness".