Supreme Court throws out lower court ruling that allowed undated ballots to be counted in Pennsylvania judicial race
The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a lower court ruling that said undated mail-in ballots in a Pennsylvania judicial race had to be counted, a decision that could eventually impact the commonwealth’s closely watched US Senate race.
The justices vacated a May 2022 ruling from the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals that ordered 257 undated ballots be counted in a Lehigh County judicial race. They instructed the lower court to dismiss the case as moot. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have declined to take the case.
Though the high court’s action does not impact the outcome of the 2021 race – in which David Ritter, the Republican state judicial candidate, lost to Democratic rival Zachary Cohen – it could eventually play a role in potential election-related disputes in high-profile races as it means the lower court’s ruling in favor of counting the undated ballots cannot be used as precedent in the three states within the court’s jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
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