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US Supreme Court Gives PA the Go-Ahead to Count Provisional Ballots of Mail-In Voters – RedState

As I wrote on Oct. 25, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed with an appellate court’s decision disagreeing with a plea from Republicans, that the state should not count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected:





On Wednesday, the high court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania rejected an appeal by Republicans on behalf of a county election board, which two voters sued to be allowed to cast provisional ballots after irregularities caused their mail ballots to be rejected, by a slim, 4-3 margin.

via The Hill:

The case arose after Pennsylvania’s primary in April, when county election officials rejected provisional ballots cast by two voters in Butler County, which is located north of Pittsburgh.  

The voters did not submit their mail ballots with an inner secrecy envelope, an error commonly known as a “naked ballot.” After…

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