Pa. judge says in-person votes cast to fix erroneous mail ballots can be counted

A Pennsylvania appellate court judge on Friday rejected an eleventh-hour request by Republicans to block counties from counting provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail ballots contained mistakes and were going to be disqualified. Commonwealth Court Judge P. Kevin Brobson ordered those ballots be separated, but said they could be counted if they are found to be eligible through the normal process counties use to verify provisional ballots. Though there was no hearing in open court, lawyers for the two Republican candidates and four voters who sued Boockvar had argued that the state’s election code does not permit counties from sharing that information with political parties. They had asked for an injunction to prevent Boockvar from “permitting invalidly submitted absentee and mail-in ballots to be ‘cured’.”