Headline : Pennsylvanias high court sides with Republicans on misdated mail ballots

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In a new ruling on Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court directed all of the state's county election officials not to count certain mail-in ballots for this year's general election that arrived on time but in envelopes without the correct dates handwritten by voters.

The order, prompted by a request from the Republican National Committee and Pennsylvania's Republican Party, is the latest development in a long-running legal battle over what to do when absentee voters don't follow an artifact of the state's election rules. The provision, which requires a voter to sign and date their ballot's outer return envelope, has drawn a tangle of lawsuits since Pennsylvania started allowing no-excuse voting by mail in 2020.

Despite similar orders by the state's high court leading up to Election Day on what are often called "undated" or misdated ballots, some local election officials had in recent days decided to include these ballots in their official tallies, prompting outcry from Republicans.

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