New lawsuit targets Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot deadline
By MARC LEVY Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new lawsuit is challenging Pennsylvania’s court-ordered deadline to count mail-in ballots that are received up to three days after the Nov. 3 election in the presidential battleground state. Plaintiffs in the suit filed Thursday include a Republican congressional candidate and four registered voters from Somerset County. The lawsuit comes three days after a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican plea making a similar argument. Both sought to block a state Supreme Court ruling that required county election officials to receive and count mailed-in ballots that arrive up until Nov. 6, even if they don’t have a clear postmark, as long as there is not proof it was mailed after the polls closed.