RNC Petitions SCOTUS To Block PA Ballot Ruling

SCOTUSblog reports:

The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania came to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to block a ruling by Pennsylvania’s highest court requiring election boards to count provisional ballots submitted by voters whose mail-in ballots had been deemed invalid.

The RNC and the Pennsylvania Republicans argue that the state supreme court had “dramatically change[d] the rules governing mail voting.” And in so doing, they contend, the state court had violated the U.S. Constitution by usurping the state legislature’s role in regulating federal elections.

The Republicans’ request came just eight days before election day, with Pennsylvania expected to play a key role in the 2024 presidential race. In 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by just over 80,000 votes, and polls have Harris and Trump in a dead heat in the current race.

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Republicans asked SCOTUS to block a judicial decision from Pennsylvania requiring the counting of provisional ballots cast by voters who make mistakes on their mail-in ballots, potentially affecting thousands of votes in the Nov. 5 presidential election https://t.co/iQPTA2BIZH pic.twitter.com/ufyy6S2IcE

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NEW: The RNC invokes “independent state legislature theory” when asking SCOTUS to review a PA Supreme Court ruling that says election officials must count provisional ballots of voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected for not having secrecy envelopeshttps://t.co/COSqUmwWWi pic.twitter.com/CJfhQT38bX

— Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) (@hansilowang) October 28, 2024