Whether the court should issue a writ of mandamus ordering Governor Wolf to withdraw his certification of Pennsylvania's Presidential election results, as well as a temporary restraining order preventing the state's Democratic Presidential electors from casting votes in the Electoral College; The plaintiffs set forth various allegations in support of their complaint, including that the defendants failed to implement recommendations provided in a Performance Audit Report conducted by the Department of the Auditor General, and that the defendants disregarded the Pennsylvania election code in authorizing the counting of defective absentee and mail-in ballots
Whether the 2019 Act of the Pennsylvania legislature establishing mail-in voting procedures is unconstitutional and whether the court should issue an injunction prohibiting the state from certifying the results of the November election
Whether the Allegheny County Board of Elections violated Pennsylvania law by canvassing 2349 mail-in ballots alleged to be defective due to undated voter declarations
Whether Pennsylvania law prohibited the Philadelphia County Board of Elections from counting 8,329 absentee and mail-in ballots containing technical defects such as a missing date next to a signature, a missing printed name of the voter, and a missing street address for the voter
Whether defendants unlawfully prevented plaintiff's observers from having meaningful access to the pre-canvass and canvass, whether defendants improperly permitted mail-in ballots to be cured, and whether the alleged acts should prevent the Pennsylvania Secretary of State from certifying election results that include tabulation of ballots affected by these acts
Whether the Bucks County Board of Elections violated Pennsylvania law by counting 2,177 absentee and mail-in ballots due to deficiencies such as the secrecy envelope being unsealed
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2:20-cv-05533)
Issue(s):
Whether the Philadelphia County Board of Elections is allowing party representatives to observe the ballot-counting process as required by Pennsylvania law
Whether the Montgomery County Board of Elections acted in violation of Pennsylvania law when it allegedly canvassed and counted absentee and mail-in ballots for which the outer declaration envelope was not completely filled in with voters' signature, address, and date; plaintiff alleges that the alleged actions affect approximately 600 votes
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