Supreme Court Overturns Controversial Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballot Ruling By Lower Courts

 The United States Supreme Court has invalidated a lower appeals court decision regarding mail-in ballots that changed the course of a judiciary race in Pennsylvania. The original decision was rendered back in May by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It required mail-ins that were missing a mandatory date on the return envelope to be counted in a 2021 judicial race

Chapman also said on a pre-scheduled press call that her office was "currently reviewing the decision."

• On her website, the current guidance is for counties to count ballots that are missing a date or have the wrong date.
• "As far as the impact on what happened with the Supreme Court, I'm not able to comment further. But what I can say is that we will evaluate and update guidance as necessary."

Pennsylvania allowed only limited use of absentee mail-in ballots until 2019, when a state law OK'd them for voters who did not otherwise qualify from a list of acceptable excuses.

• A lawsuit by Republican lawmakers challenging the mail- in voting law is pending in state court, while in August the state Supreme Court upheld the law against a separate challenge.

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