Clarion County commissioner Wayne Brosius said Friday the county is listening to the state Supreme Court as far as what to do with the counting of certain ballots during election day on Tuesday.
Earlier this week, the state Supreme Court ordered that any general election ballots that are mailed in undated or incorrectly dated envelopes must be set aside and not counted by county election boards.
The ruling was in response to a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee, the Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania.
The Department of State said it was reviewing the order but added it “underscores the importance of the state’s consistent guidance that voters should carefully follow all instructions on their mail ballot and double-check it before returning it.”
Brosius said Clarion County will segregate the ballots that were either undated or incorrectly dated.
Cindy Callihan, the county’s interim director of elections, said “we have had a handful of undated ballots.”
Callihan said there were more than 2,000 applications for mail-in ballots in Clarion County this year, and about 300 have yet to come back.
She said the requests for mail-in ballots this year were lower than in 2020 but higher than normal.
Clarion County has about 24,000 registered voters.
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