Commonwealth Court finds electronic votes, like ballots and voting machine contents, are exempt from Pennsylvania public records law

A Pennsylvania appeals court found that electronic records of votes cast in the 2020 presidential election are not public records under the state’s Right-to-Know Law. In its 5-2 ruling against prominent election denier Heather Honey, a Commonwealth Court panel reversed a Lycoming County judge’s decision. Writing for the majority, Judge Ellen Ceisler said the lower court erred by ruling the contents of ballot boxes and voting machines are inaccessible under an exemption to the public records law but not their digital equivalents.

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