Electoral officials in Pennsylvania hope that the newly designed envelope for temporary voting cards will reduce the number for technical reasons.
State law requires voters to sign temporary voting envelopes twice, that their voices are counted. In recent years, the number of voting cards has increased due to these technical errors, According to Pennsylvania’s Votbeat analysis.
According to Pennsylvania’s department, in November 2024, almost 30% of about 100,000 temporary votes, and about 17% of the rejected votes had incomplete envelopes, according to the Department of State of Pennsylvania.
The ones to vote have gained intensive attention During the counting process last year Breed of the Senatein which the Republican Dave McCormick barely defeated the democratic present Bob Casey.
The Secretary of State Pennsylvania Al Schmidt, next to the commissioners of the city of Philadelphia, Omar Sabir and Setha Bluestein, presented a fresh project on Monday, which means more clearly where voters should sign before voting and after where election staff must complete the information themselves.
“It is important that the instructions and materials are as clear as possible to reduce the likelihood of making voters’ mistake,” said Schmidt at a fresh conference in front of the town hall in Philadelphia.
Temporary voting cards are used in various situations in which voters may encounter a problem at the electoral place – sometimes they are used when the voter demanded, but did not return the vote or if they went to the wrong electoral place.
Temporary voting cards are counted after checking their election staff to make sure that the voter is registered and has not yet voted.
The efforts were led by Philadelphia in cooperation with several other Pennsylvania’s units, but it is not yet clear whether the envelopes will be used in the whole condition.
Contrary to the previous redesign throughout the country, Schmidt has no order of the order of every Ferry in Pennsylvania to apply the fresh project. Instead, he said, the state encourages poviats to accept a fresh envelope and offered financial incentives, which, as the department spokesman said, compensates for the cost of change.
In the Philadelphia region, officials of Delaware, Chester and Montgomery declared that they intend to apply fresh envelopes projects.
Jim Allen, Director of the Delaware County election, said that the unit has already begun to emphasize the signature boxes on envelopes and, as a result, recorded a reduction in errors.
“We think that we can use the same color accents for this project, and maybe even reduce the perspective of errors even more,” he said.
