Fact check. GOP to Challenge Pennsylvania’s Mail-in Voting Rulings in Supreme Court. Republicans in Harrisburg have asked the state Supreme Court to stay part of its order allowing the use of ballot drop boxes and granting a three-day extension to count mail-in ballots while they appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In an application filed Tuesday, the Republican lawmakers accused the state Supreme Court of violating federal election law by extending the deadline to accept late ballots. That basically creates multiple election days, which “raises the same concerns of fraud, undue advantage and nonuniformity which led to the creation of a Federal Election Day,” the legislators’ attorneys wrote.
The state Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision Sept. 17, granted requests from the Democratic Party to allow three additional days or until Nov. 6 for elections departments to count mail-in ballots — including ones with illegible postmarks.
