ACLU-PA Sues Butler County Over Ballot "Curing" Policy
ACLU-PA and Public Interest Law Center represent two voters who forgot the secrecy envelope in their mail ballot but then had their provisional ballots not counted when they tried to fix their mistake.
Broken Rules: How Pennsylvania Courts Use Cash Bail to Incarcerate People Before Trial is a new research report published by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania. Documenting statewide bail practices based on data from 2016 and 2017, the report finds that unaffordable cash bail is a statewide crisis. In counties across Pennsylvania, magisterial district judges routinely set bail that people cannot afford. The report provides four recommendations that Pennsylvania’s courts can and must take on the path to reform.