BANFIELD v. CORTÉS

No. 83 MAP 2013.

110 A.3d 155 (2015)

Mark BANFIELD, Sarah Beck, Joan Bergquist, Alan Brau, Lucia Dailey, Peter Deutsch, Constance Fewlass, Barbara Glassman, Marijo Highland, Janis Hobbs-Pellechio, Deborah Johnson, Andrew McDowell, James Michaels, J. Whyatt Mondesire, Mary Montresor, Rev. James Moore, Cathy Reed, Regina Schlitz, Alexander Sickert, Daniel Sleator, Susanna Staas, Stephen J. Strahs, Mary Vollero, Jeanne Zang, Appellants v. Pedro CORTÉS, Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Jan Goldstein, Esq. , Dilworth Paxson LLP, Harrisburg, for Election Systems & Software Inc.

Marc J. Zucker, Esq. , Weir & Partners, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Sequoia Voting Systems.

Katie, Lynn Bailey, Esq. , Michael Patrick Daly, Esq. , Meredith Nissen Reinhardt, Esq. , Drinker Biddle & Reath, L.L.P., Michael Churchill, Esq. , Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Benjamin David Geffen, Esq. , Garrett Douglas Trego, Esq. , Philadelphia, for Mark Banfield, et al.

David J. Berney, Esq. , Law Offices of David J. Berney, Philadelphia, for Rutgers School of Law — Constitutional Rights Clinic, amicus curiae.

Steven Edward Bizar, Esq. , Shawn N. Gallagher, Esq. , Richard M. Simins, Esq. , Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C., Gregory Eugene Dunlap, Esq. , PA Governor's Office of General Counsel, Kathleen Marie Kotula, Esq. , PA Department of State, Robert J. Fitzgerald, Esq. , Philadelphia, Brock Edward McCandless, Esq. , Pittsburgh, for Carol Aichele.

CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, STEVENS, JJ.


OPINION

In this appeal, we must determine whether the Commonwealth Court erred in upholding the decision of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to certify certain direct-recording electronic voting systems (DREs) for use in Pennsylvania elections.1 The Commonwealth Court found that the...

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