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Poll Watchers and Substitute Ballots

Robert Timothy Reagan
July 14, 2023

Parnell v. Allegheny County Board of Elections (J. Nicholas Ranjan, W.D. Pa. 2:20-cv-1570)
A federal complaint alleged that poll watchers were wrongfully excluded from election locations established to accommodate the Covid-19 infectious pandemic and the issuing of corrected ballots to mail-in voters created the possibility of invalid votes. The district judge denied relief on the poll watchers, and the parties consented to relief on the substitute ballots.
Subject: Voting irregularities. Topics: Early voting; election errors; absentee ballots; intervention; ballot segregation; Covid-19; poll locations; class action.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.