Officials in Pennsylvania counties who defied the state Supreme Court and voted to count undated mail-in ballots said they’d comply with a new decision from justices on the matter.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Nov. 18 said every county in the state “shall comply with the prior rulings of this Court in which we have clarified that mail-in and absentee ballots that fail to comply with the requirements of the Pennsylvania Election Code … shall not be counted for purposes of the election held on November 5, 2024.”
Justices named election boards in Bucks, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties that had voted to count undated ballots, despite the state’s top court before the November presidential election making clear an appeals court decision in favor of counting undated ballots “shall not be applied” to the election….