Pennsylvania’s highest court has ruled people whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law can cast provisional ballots.

County election officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail ballots are rejected because of errors, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled. The 4-3 decision affirms a Sept. 5 ruling by a Commonwealth Court panel in favor of two voters whose “naked” mail-in ballots were rejected because they lacked secrecy envelopes inside the

An Election Integrity Grant could help Pennsylvania battleground counties count ballots faster than years past.

The decision is likely to affect thousands of mail-in ballots among the millions that will be cast in Pennsylvania, a pivotal 2024 swing state.

More than a million voters in Pennsylvania have returned a mail ballot. Philadelphia's collar counties make up over a quarter of those.

Fewer Pennsylvanians are voting by mail in 2024 than they did in in the last presidential election, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Voters who make a disqualifying mail ballot error are entitled to cast a provisional ballot on Election Day at a polling place and have it counted, per a new court ruling.