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Pennsylvania High Court Blocks RNC Challenge on Mail Ballots

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to take a case over mail-in ballot lawsuit from the Republican National Committee, asserting it would be too close to the November election.

As previously reported in The Daily Signal, the RNC sued the office of Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt for what they say are inconsistent standards for allowing voters to correct—or “cure”—ballots.

Curing is a term used to describe a voter making a mistake on a mail-ballot, and making a correction.

Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral votes, is one of the seven hotly-contested battleground states. The Real Clear Politics polling average shows the state is a tie between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden beat Republican Trump in the state by just 1%. In 2016, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by less than 1%.

The state’s…

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