The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that election officials in Pennsylvania can count absentee ballots received as late as the Friday after Election Day so long as they are postmarked by Nov. 3.

The court declined without comment to take up one of the highest-profile election law cases in the final stretch before Election Day. Pennsylvania Republicans had sought to block the counting of late-arriving ballots, which the state's Supreme Court had approved last month.

Republicans sought the emergency stay, arguing that it is up to the state's legislature — not the court — to set rules for how elections are conducted. They also said the court's ruling could allow ballots cast after Election Day to be counted.

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The court's most conservative justices — Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas — said they would have agreed to the stay request. But Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's three most liberal members to reject the request.

Many more voters are expected to cast votes by mail this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the issue of the cutoff date for when those ballots must be in the hands of election officials has become a legal flashpoint between Democrats and Republicans.

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the report that never made the live news....supreme court did rule on late ballots...evidently no one would be happy with this going public....so it mostly didn't....

here in oregon, they will still be counted so long as they are post marked mailed before 8:PM.
time enough to stuff those ballots.
whats that old phraise??
vote now and vote often.?

The reports of huge amounts of voter fraud in the recent elections are a myth. There is some of course. But not in the amounts that some websites and "news" outlets want you to believe.

This.

this is just the primary, we'll see what the turn out percentages are at the start. and how much they increase as the votes are tallied. over the coming week. as of this time. we have one county with out a single vote tallied.