Appeal Seeks to Overturn Victims’ Rights Referendum Decision

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s chief elections official wants the state Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that prevents the state from immediately counting or certifying results in next week’s referendum on a victims’ rights constitutional amendment. Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar filed an emergency order late Thursday that argued the ruling a day earlier by Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler will suppress voter turnout and “foment irreparable uncertainty” among voters.