As Election Day unfolds, election officials in Pennsylvania are expecting to handle a lot of provisional ballots.. Here’s what they are and why it’s happening. What are provisional ballots? A ...

But the voters prevailed before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which ruled in a 4-3 decision that boards of elections must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail ballots are rejected ...

The June 6 decision is the second time the U.S. Supreme Court has passed on reviewing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s October 2024 decision.

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to block Pennsylvania from counting some provisional ballots in Tuesday’s election, a decision potentially affecting thousands of votes in the battleground ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court noted in its ruling that provisional votes can be counted only after a person’s eligibility to vote and the rejection of their mail-in ballot are confirmed.

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Between 2016 and 2024, the percentage of provisional ballots rejected due to technical errors increased from .95% to 4.92%.

Pennsylvania voters can cast a provisional ballot if their mail ballot is rejected, court says. The case stems from a lawsuit filed by two Butler County voters in western Pennsylvania ...

The Supreme Court passed up the chance to weigh in how much leeway state courts have to interpret federal election rules.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a Republican appeal and left in place a Pennsylvania court decision allowing people to cast provisional ballots when their mail-in votes are ...

But Pennsylvania election officials told Votebeat and Spotlight PA that this doesn’t entirely explain why a growing portion of provisional ballots are being rejected for exterior envelope errors.

More than 26,000 provisional ballots were cast in the 2016 presidential election, before the state had no-excuse mail voting, according to data tracked by the Pennsylvania Department of State.