Supreme Court upholds Pennsylvania provisional ballot ruling, in a major loss for GOP
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Republicans in the Keystone State filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court just days before the election regarding the state's processing of provisional ballots.
Attorneys for the Republican Party urged the Supreme Court to grant a full stay of the state’s decision, writing in a final reply brief submitted Thursday evening that such an order would "prevent multiple forms" of "irreparable harm" to the state. Breanne Deppisch is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the 2024 election and other national news.
At a minimum, the court was urged to grant a "segregation order" to allow the ballots to be set aside and counted separately.
"The actual provisional ballots contain no identifying information, only a vote," the GOP's lawyers wrote. "Once ballots are separated from their outer envelopes, there is no way to retroactively figure out which ballots were illegally cast. In other words, once the egg is scrambled, it cannot be unscrambled."
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