GOP effort to block 'cured' Pennsylvania ballots gets chilly reception from judge

“I’m not sure about that,” said Savage, an appointee of President George W. Bush. “Is that exactly what was said or is what was said was that there is no mandatory requirement that the election board do that?....Wasn’t the legislative intent of the statute we are talking about to franchise, not disenfranchise, voters?” GOP effort to block 'cured' Pennsylvania ballots gets chilly reception from judge A federal judge in Pennsylvania Friday denied a GOP-led effort to toss votes within a county that let voters fix errors on their absentee ballots, The Hill reported.