The Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted on Friday an emergency request from Republicans to pause a lower court’s ruling that mail-in ballots with missing dates should still be counted, a move that leaves longstanding questions about undated ballots unresolved days before the election.
In addition to the eleventh-hour stay, Republicans had also pleaded with the state’s highest court to take a conclusive position on the undated ballots, but the justices declined to go that far. In an unusual move, Democrats agreed with Republicans that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court should take a stance.
The emergency pause came after Pennsylvania’s appellate court decided that people who neglect to fill in the date on the outer envelope of their mail-in ballot will still have their vote count.
SUPREME COURT REJECTS REPUBLICAN BID TO BLOCK SOME PENNSYLVANIA PROVISIONAL BALLOTS
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