Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has ordered county elections officials in Pennsylvania to keep separate mail-in ballots that arrived after election day. The state’s top elections official already had ordered those ballots be kept apart. He ordered a response from the state by Saturday afternoon and said he has referred the matter to the full court for further action. The order is related to an ongoing Republican appeal to the Supreme Court to try to keep ballots received in the mail after Election Day from being counted. The state’s top court granted a three-day extension, and the Supreme Court refused to block it.

Source: The Standard November 07, 2020 05:15 UTC