ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A federal district court in Allentown, Pennsylvania, ruled today that the mail and absentee ballots of 257 voters from the 2021 general election in Lehigh County must be disqualified because the voters mistakenly forgot to date their return envelopes.

Philadelphia, PA - The U.S. Department of Justice has found that Pennsylvania’s state courts violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when its courts prohibited or limited access to medications for opioid use disorder.

EASTON, Pa. - The ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today against Lehigh County to require the county to count 257 mail-in ballots from the 2021 general election that were disqualified only because they were missing the handwritten date on the outer envelope.

HARRISBURG - Today, a Commonwealth Court judge overturned the 2019 law that made vote-by-mail possible in Pennsylvania. In the 2020 general election alone, nearly three million Pennsylvanians took advantage of the law to vote in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Tonight, the Chambersburg Town Council is scheduled to vote on repealing its nondiscrimination ordinance.

HARRISBURG - A series of lawsuits challenging subpoenas issued by the Pennsylvania Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee will continue, after a ruling today from Commonwealth Court denying “summary relief” to all parties in the litigation.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against the Fulton County commissioners to compel compliance with a September 2021 order by the Office of Open Records to produce all records related to Fulton County’s review of its election results and voting machines.