Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea

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Source: AP

Updated 7:10 PM EDT, November 1, 2024


DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania as the presidential campaigns vie in the final days before the election in the nation’s biggest battleground state.

The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected.

The ruling is a victory for voting-rights advocates, who had sought to force counties — primarily Republican-controlled counties — to let voters cast a provisional ballot on Election Day if they had realized that their mail-in ballot was to be rejected for various garden-variety errors.

As of Thursday, about 9,000 ballots out of more than 1.6 million returned have arrived at elections offices around Pennsylvania lacking a secrecy envelope, a signature or a date, according to state records. Pennsylvania is the biggest presidential election battleground this year, with 19 electoral votes, and is expected to play an outsized role in deciding the election between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/bucks-county-pennsylvania-early-mail-voting-deadline-05296504a3237956d96126570137a9f1

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This is related to FEDERAL LAW and the counting of provisional ballots.

THIS IS SEPARATE FROM THE STATE LAW CASE (UNDATED BALLOTS) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143332586

Article updated.

Original article -

Updated 6:47 PM EDT, November 1, 2024


DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania.

The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected.

As of Thursday, about 9,000 ballots out of more than 1.6 million returned have arrived at elections offices around Pennsylvania lacking a secrecy envelope, a signature or a date, according to state records.

Pennsylvania is the biggest presidential election battleground this year, with 19 electoral votes. Former President Donald Trump won the state in 2016, then lost it in 2020.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.

[wolfie001]

1. Great News!!! nt

[nitpicked]

2. Link to CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/politics/supreme-court-pennsylvania-voting/index.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. How about that??? They CAN be fair. nt

[GB_RN]

7. Meh.

It’s just another one of those occasional “bones” that Roberts tosses us, so as to make people think that he, Clarence “Uncle Slappy the Clown” Thomas, Scammy Alito, Justice Beerbong, Gore-suck and The Handmaiden aren’t (as far) off the ranch as they really are. You know, a kind of wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing stunt.

[BlueKota]

4. Wow they actually

ruled correctly? When I say I am shocked, it's not sarcasm. I am genuinely surprised that they actually didn't cave to Donny again.

[Dem2theMax]

5. Yes!

[Comfortably_Numb]

6. I think that if the voters, the press, and the democrats in congress keep the pressure on the extreme court and press

the right-wing ideologue shit out of them, then they will have to at least pretend to rule based on the law every once and awhile. Keep that magnifying glass focused like cooking ants on the corrupt six.