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(Reuters) – The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Thursday barred county elections officials from counting mail-in and absentee ballots in which voters provided missing information after November 9.
Those ballots were ordered last week to be separated until the Commonwealth Court determines the validity of the votes.
The Commonwealth Court ruled that Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar lacked the authority to extend the deadline to November 12 from November 9 for voters to provide missing information to validate their ballot.
The case was presented by the campaign of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Republican National Committee.
Trump’s Democratic challenger Joe Biden is expected to win Pennsylvania, giving him enough electoral votes to become president-elect.
(This story is corrected to show that the order applies to absentee and mailed ballots that did not meet a deadline for correcting voter information, not provisional ballots)
(Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware, edited by Rosalba O’Brien)
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