On Friday, A Pennsylvania court ordered election officials to set aside provisional ballots cast on Election Day by voters whose absentee or mail-in ballots were received on time.
Those provisional ballots were to be separated until officials could determine if they were validly cast, according to an order by the Commonwealth Court in a lawsuit brought by Republican candidates.
The Republicans were challenging guidance issued by Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar that allows defective mail-in ballots to be cured by giving people the opportunity to file provisional ballots. Republicans say that guidance violates state law.
Boockvar had already said she would voluntarily do that, but the Republicans said in the request it is unclear whether all the counties are complying. Late-arriving ballots are a tiny proportion of the overall vote in the state, Boockvar has said.
Republican are also seeking to block late-arriving mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, which is pending at the Supreme Court, the Republicans asked the justices to issue an order requiring that the ballots in question be set aside during the counting process.
