Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules mail ballots with incorrect dates won't be counted

[Deminpenn]

25. Not a matter of matching up, some just forget to put the date after they sign

As BRDS posted, the back of the envelope has been redesigned to be much easier to read with the blocks that need to be filled in now highlighted. I believe the return envelope is now also a different color than the ballot security envelope, too.

On the old design envelopes, the form that was printed on the back had to be printed in smaller print because otherwise it wouldn't have fit in the space. It was easy to miss the blank space to put the date after you filled out the ballot.

But as a coworker, who did quality assurance on easy to fill out forms once told me, "people can be very creative when you don't want them to be".