Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has asked Pennsylvania to respond by Saturday afternoon to a GOP request that the court order election officials not to count the mail ballots that arrive during a disputed, post-Election Day grace period.
But Alito’s order stopped short of giving Pennsylvania Republicans everything that they wanted — earlier Friday the state party had asked for an emergency Supreme Court intervention.
Instead, Alito ordered that election officials follow voluntarily guidance issued by the state late last month that they segregate the late-arriving ballots. Alito’s order said that if election officials counted those ballots, that they should be counted separately.
The state GOP has asked the court to order that officials only segregate and log the late-arriving ballots, and take no further action on them before that.
from Talking Points Memo https://ift.tt/35anOKB
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