Plaintiffs sought to have the state supreme court ruling paused that allows for the acceptance of provisional ballots to replace rejected mail-in ballots.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling that voters can cast provisional ballots if their mail-in ballots were rejected. The plaintiffs requested the high court place a hold on the decision.
The state supreme court had decided that voters whose ballots were missing the “secrecy” envelope or which were incorrectly filled out would be allowed a provisional ballot.
The plaintiffs sought at least a “segregation” of ballots, stating, “The actual provisional ballots contain no identifying information, only a vote. Once ballots are separated from their outer envelopes, there is no way to retroactively figure out which ballots were illegally cast. In other words, once the egg is scrambled, it cannot be unscrambled.”
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided that, if a voter’s eligibility to vote and the rejection of their mail-in ballot are confirmed, a provisional ballot may be cast by that voter.
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Sources: Reuters, Fox News
