procedure. Accordingly, the Court finds that Individual Plaintiffs have established
injury in fact.
2.
Causation
However, Individual Plaintiffs fail to establish that Defendant Counties or
Secretary Boockvar actually caused their injuries. First, Defendant Counties, by
Plaintiffs’ own pleadings, had nothing to do with the denial of Individual
Plaintiffs’ ability to vote. Individual Plaintiffs’ ballots were rejected by Lancaster
and Fayette Counties, neither of which is a party to this case. None of Defendant
Counties received, reviewed, or discarded Individual Plaintiffs’ ballots. Even
assuming that Defendant Counties unconstitutionally allowed other voters to cure
their ballots, that alone cannot confer standing on Plaintiffs who seek to challenge
the denial of their votes.
Second, Individual Plaintiffs have not shown that their purported injuries are
fairly traceable to Secretary Boockvar. Individual Plaintiffs have entirely failed to
establish any causal relationship between Secretary Boockvar and the cancellation
of their votes. The only connection the Individual Plaintiffs even attempt to draw
is that Secretary Boockvar sent an email on November 2, 2020 to some number of
counties, encouraging them to adopt a notice-and-cure policy. However, they fail
to allege which counties received this email or what information was specifically
included therein. Further, that this email encouraged counties to adopt a noticeand-cure policy does not suggest in any way that Secretary Boockvar intended or
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