Election Day 2019: Pennsylvania’s High Court Rules Marsy’s Law Votes Won’t Be Counted

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled on the eve of balloting Monday that state elections officials will not count or certify the results of a voter referendum on a victims’ rights constitutional amendment. The divided Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision and directed the Department of State not to tabulate or certify the votes that will be cast Tuesday in Pennsylvania’s 67 counties for and against the proposal. The 4-3 majority’s brief order said it does not stop anyone from voting on the ballot measure. In a dissent joined by two others, Chief Justice Thomas Saylor said he was concerned about “significant potential to foster uncertainty” that the court’s action may generate among state voters. “I also believe that the requirement for a challenger to prove a likelihood of success on the merits should be elevated in the context of an attack on presumptively valid actions by the Legislature,” Saylor said. The ballot question’s fate had been in limbo since last week, when Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler issued an injunction that was requested by the state League of Women Voters and a voter, the plaintiffs who sued to challenge the proposal. Ceisler ruled her prohibition on… Read full this story

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