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The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that the Philadelphia County Board of Elections must count 69 previously rejected mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect outer envelope dates cast by voters in a September 2024 special election for two state House districts.

A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit from six GOP Pennsylvania congressmen that could have jeopardized the ability of military and overseas voters to have their ballots counted in the upcoming election. 

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to promptly pause a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allows voters in the swing state to cast provisional ballots on Election Day if their mail-in ballots are disqualified due to a technical mistake. 

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that counties must count provisional ballots cast in person by voters who mistakenly submitted “naked” mail-in ballots that lacked an inner secrecy envelope. 

Luzerne County, one of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s most populous counties, will deploy drop boxes for the general election, reversing a previous decision to remove them entirely. 

On Saturday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to weigh in on two consequential election lawsuits over mail-in voting.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lawsuit from 27 Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers seeking to revive the right-wing independent state legislature (ISL) theory, which posits the U.S. Constitution affords state legislatures exclusive authority to regulate federal elections.

Pennsylvania organizations and voters are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether rejecting mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates on return envelopes violates a federal Civil Rights Act provision.