DOYLESTOWN (AP) – The Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in PA. The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected. As of Thursday, about 9,000 ballots out of more than 1.6 million returned have arrived at elections offices around PA lacking a secrecy envelope, a signature or a date, according to state records. PA is the biggest presidential election battleground this year, with 19 electoral votes.
