These Pennsylvania counties give voters a chance to fix errors on their mail ballots (MAP)
Voters in most Pennsylvania counties will have the chance to fix errors with their mail ballots during this election and spare them from being rejected, according to a review of county policies by Votebeat and Spotlight PA.
Thirty-four counties allow voters to fix errors with their mail ballots in some way, and in seven other counties mail voters can at least cast a provisional ballot at their polling place on Election Day if they make a mistake that disqualifies their mail ballot.
The practice, referred to as notice-and-cure, is a policy some counties have adopted to inform voters of errors with their mail ballots that put those ballots at risk of rejection and allow those voters to correct the mistakes.
At least 29 counties, however, will not offer voters the chance to fix errors, according to the survey.
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/10/pennsylvania-election-2024-mail-ballot-curing-notice-errors-fix/
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The curing can only happen when the error is on the outside mailing envelope. Typically the voter will forget to sign the envelope. Or the date is incorrect or missing altogether.
When the County Board of Elections receives the mailed ballot and there's a mistake on the outside envelope, they will try to contact the voter, and the voter has time to come down to the Election Office and "fix" the mistake. That's how they "cure " their ballot. When that happens the ballot can be added to all the others that are accepted and waiting to be counted.
When we started with the no-excuse mailed ballots back in 2020 - because of the Covid lockdown - only 2 counties did this ballot "curing." Now we're up to 34 counties, so that's about half of Pennsylvania. It's a good sign.
