No, a court did not order Pennsylvania to count ballots on Election Day. It ordered counties to segregate undated mail ballots.
that counties must refrain from counting any absentee and mail-in ballots that have undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes. The court ordered the counties to segregate ballots with missing or incorrect dates.
This Facebook post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. "That doesn't mean ‘must end by midnight,’" said Bonin, who represents the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the mail ballot case as an intervener-defendant."Indeed, the same law says in the next clause, ‘no later than 12:01 a.m. on the day following the election, the county board of elections shall announce and post on its publicly accessible Internet website an unofficial number of absentee ballots and mail-in ballots received for the election.
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