Supreme Court Rejects GOP Challenge in Pennsylvania Provisional Ballot Case

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court previously ruled that voters can submit provisional ballots after improperly submitting mail-in ballots. The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1 rejected Republicans’ request to halt the effects of a state court’s decision allowing Pennsylvania voters to cast provisional ballots after they have improperly submitted mail-in ballots. Justice Samuel Alito issued a

Supreme Court won’t block counting of certain provisional ballots in Pennsylvania

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday declined to freeze a decision from Pennsylvania’s highest court that required election officials to count provisional ballots cast by people whose mail ballots are invalid because they lacked mandatory secrecy envelopes. The order from the justices means that election officials in the key battleground state must tally provisional