Pa. Supreme Court orders counties to set aside undated and wrongly dated mail ballots and not count them

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania counties must segregate and not count mail ballots with missing or incorrect dates, the state Supreme Court said Tuesday, in a ruling that could affect thousands of votes in November’s midterm elections. “The Pennsylvania county boards of elections are hereby ordered to refrain from counting any absentee and mail-in ballots received for the November 8, 2022 general election that are contained in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes,” the court said in its order Tuesday afternoon. The justices said they were deadlocked, 3-3, on whether rejecting undated and w...