In June, the Justice Department sued Pennsylvania’s secretary of state and the state’s 67 county election boards to limit the way absentee ballots can be submitted in November. It argued that ballot drop boxes — secure receptacles where ballots are collected by election officials — are not only dangerously susceptible to voter fraud, but unconstitutional.
The complaint, filed in both federal and state court, sought to block counties from accepting absentee ballots unless they are mailed by voters, either through the U.S. Postal Service or another courier, like FedEx or UPS, or handed off in person at an election office. Drop boxes, common in so many states, were dubbed by the suit to be part of a problem of “unmonitored by-mail voting” and “the single greatest threat to free and fair elections.” So much for Moscow.
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