The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously allowed to stand a Pennsylvania decision that allows voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected for technical reasons to still have their ballots counted if they vote again with a provisional ballot.

The appeal to the Supreme Court was filed by the Republican National Committee (RNC), which claimed that the state Supreme Court “misread” the Pennsylvania Election Code; This law states that if a vote-by-mail ballot is still delivered, it “does not count as a provisional vote.” County election officials on time.

“When the legislature says certain votes can be taken Never counted, a state court cannot blue-pencil this express order Always,” the RNC’s legal team wrote: their application. “The General Assembly here could not have been clearer.”

It’s unclear how many voters will be affected as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision because some counties do not notify voters of errors on their ballots. These errors include not including confidential envelopes and not signing or dating the outer envelope. According to CBS News.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who oversees Supreme Court appeals in Pennsylvania. wrote briefly He said the case was “a pretty important issue” but that he wasn’t sure a different ruling would give Republicans what they were really looking for.

“Even if we accept the applicants’ federal constitutional claim (a question on which I have no comment at this time), we cannot prevent the consequences they fear,” he wrote.

The statement was made alongside Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.

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