Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania with wrong or missing dates won't be counted, the state's highest court ruled. The decision could affect thousands of votes.
Pennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday ordered election officials to disallow mail-in ballots if voters neglect to put the correct date on the envelope, which could affect thousands of ballots in the hotly
contested state.requiring local counties “to refrain from counting any absentee and mail-in ballots” with undated or incorrectly dated envelopes. The court ordered that such ballots be set aside and preserved.
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