Pennsylvania court nixes unlimited mail-in voting

 Politico:

A Pennsylvania state court on Friday struck down the law allowing any voter to cast a ballot by mail, handing a victory to Republican lawmakers who sought to curtail the practice amid former President Donald Trump’s attacks on mail voting.

A panel of judges from Pennsylvania’s commonwealth court ruled that Act 77 — which passed out of the state legislature with bipartisan support and was signed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in 2019 — violated the state constitution.

State Attorney General Josh Shapiro, also a Democrat, said the ruling would be appealed to the state Supreme Court, which turned back other challenges to the law in 2020 and has a generally liberal bent.
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There is a deep distrust of mail-in voting, especially among Republicans.  Texas has found that mail-vote fraud is the most prosecuted voting irregularity. 

See, also:

Pennsylvania Court Rules State’s Mail-In-Voting Law Is ‘Unconstitutional’

And: 

Election Law That Helped Make Joe Biden President Struck Down as Unconstitutional

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