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Voters who submit mail ballots in time for an election, but forget to write a date on them or write the wrong date, must have their ballots counted, a federal judge in western Pennsylvania has ruled.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered that election officials to not count any mail-in or absentee ballots that arrive in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes during the upcoming election.
The Pennsylvania Department of State late Tuesday instructed county election officials that undated or wrongly dated mail ballots were to be set aside but not counted.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Pennsylvania's top-ranking state elections official said Tuesday a new U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding how rules for the state's mail-in ballots had been applied in a county judge election doesn't change her agency's guidance about counting them.