The Trump campaign previously asked a federal district court judge to deem signature mismatches unconstitutional.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday that mail ballots and applications can’t be challenged or rejected for signatures mismatches. The court’s two conservative justices joined its five liberal ones in ruling that subjective signatures analysis can’t be the reason any ballot is rejected in the key battleground state. «County boards of elections are prohibited from rejecting absentee or mail-in ballots based on signature comparison conducted by county election officials or employees, or as the result of third-party challenges based on signature analysis and comparisons,» Justice Debra Todd wrote in the concurring opinion. Pennsylvania’s elections chief had issued guidance in September in line with that interpretation of the law, and the Trump campaign asked a federal district court judge to deem it unconstitutional.
