Judge: 2020 cast vote records not accessible to public
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A Lycoming County judge has ruled in-person 2020 ballot images in the county are not accessible to the public.
Judge Eric R. Linhardt ruled this week that cast vote records (CVR) from the 2020 general election in Lycoming County are not for public viewing, according to PennLive.com.
The decision came as the state Department of State asked the Commonwealth Court to reverse his ruling on the CVRs.
Both cases involve appeals of Office of Open Records' (OOR) decisions on Right-to-Know requests that neither is public, according to PennLive.
The Department of State, on behalf of the county's Office of Voter Services, is appealing Linhardt's December ruling in a companion case brought by Heather Honey, who heads the Lebanon-based Haystack Investigations, that CVRs are public.
Linhardt speculated the reason the Legislature made images of mail-in and absentee ballots public was a concern they might be more subject to voter fraud.