By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-01 23:59:23 | Updated at 2024-11-02 02:16:29
2 hours ago
BREAKING NEWS Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots in blow for Republicans
Associated Press via Daily Mail ^ | 11/01/24 | Associated Press, Geoff Earle
Posted on 11/01/2024 4:52:16 PM PDT by Libloather
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in the 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.
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.
In 2020, it was decided by about 80,000 votes.
The case dealt in part with 'naked ballots,' those without a security sleeve that gets included in mail ballots but which some voters may neglect to use.
The Republican National Committee said it could impact 'tens of thousands of votes in a state which many anticipate could be decisive.'
Wrote Justice Samuel Alito, 'even if we agreed with the applicants’ federal constitutional argument (a question on which I express no view at this time), we could not prevent the consequences they fear.'
There weren't any dissents.
The Supreme Court's rejection comes after an intervention by its conservative majority, off its 'shadow docket', that boosted the Republican position in Virginia.
That decision, which the court released without explanation, allowed the state to purge about about 1,600 people from its rolls just a week before the election.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: ballots; court; pennsylvania; republicans
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1 posted on 11/01/2024 4:52:16 PM PDT by Libloather
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Traitor Roberts continues to be.
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