Three Pennsylvania lawmakers stripped down so they were only wearing a ballot above the waist in an effort to educate voters on mail-in ballot procedures.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures! So your favorite elected officials got naked so that you remember to make sure that your mail-in ballot is NOT submitted without its secrecy envelope!! #nonakedballots #dressyourballot,” Allegheny County Councilwoman Bethany Hallam wrote on Twitter of the campaign.
Hallam was joined by fellow Allegheny County Councilwoman Olivia Bennett and Pennsylvania state Representative-elect Emily Kinkaid in posing topless with only ballots.
Desperate times call for desperate measures! So your favorite elected officials got naked so that you remember to make sure that your mail-in ballot is NOT submitted without its secrecy envelope!! #nonakedballots #dressyourballot pic.twitter.com/bQXaQRHj0j
— Bethany Hallam (@bethanyhallam) September 26, 2020
Pennsylvania requires absentee ballots to be enclosed within a secrecy envelope. Ballots that don’t use the envelope are colloquially referred to as “naked ballots” and will not be counted due to a state Supreme Court ruling.
In a related election decision, the state’s Supreme Court recently gave Democrats a major victory: Ballots will be processed if they are postmarked by Election Day and arrive by Nov. 6, three days after the election.
