Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Block Count of Some Pennsylvania Provisional Ballots [View all]

The Supreme Court on Friday evening cleared the way for some voters in Pennsylvania whose mail-in ballots had been deemed invalid to cast provisional ballots in person, rejecting an appeal by Republicans not to count such votes.

The decision was unsigned and gave no reasoning, which is common in such emergency petitions.

The decision could affect thousands of mail-in ballots in a state that is crucial to each party’s path to victory in the presidential contest and could be consequential in determining control of the Senate. The latest polls show Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump virtually tied there, and their campaigns have poured more money and time into Pennsylvania than any other state.

The ruling, which thrust the justices into a hotly contested legal fight in a critical battleground state, was among a flurry of decisions by the court this week related to the presidential election



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