Pennsylvania Supreme Court extends mail ballot deadline
Pennsylvanians will have a three-day extension to return mail ballots with the Postal Service and the option to return them in drop boxes, the state's highest court ruled Thursday. The decision could help Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the key battleground state, especially as Democrats have taken in the lead in requests for absentee ballots.
The state's election code requires mail ballots to be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day to be counted. But the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that counties must also accept ballots received by 5 p.m. the following Friday, as long as they were postmarked by Election Day or don't have a legible postmark.
The decision could mean many more Democratic votes are counted in Pennsylvania. In the state's June primary, over twice as many Democrats as Republicans applied to vote by mail. In that election, counties received nearly 100,000 mail-in ballots after Election Day, the majority of which came in the three days following it, the secretary of the commonwealth testified in another court case. That's over twice as many votes as President Trump won the state by in 2016.
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