HARRISBURG – Reports say a new lawsuit was filed today that is challenging Pennsylvania’s court-ordered deadline to count mail-in ballots that are received up to three days after the November 3 election. CBS and AP say plaintiffs, including four registered voters from Somerset County and a Republican congressional candidate, are asking a federal judge in Pittsburgh to block the deadline extension from going into effect.
CBS-3 says it names Secretary of the Department of State, Kathy Boockvar, as the defendant. She’s argued in the state’s courts that a deadline extension was necessary to prevent late-arriving mail-in votes from being thrown out because of postal delays. The lawsuit comes 12 days before the election and three days after the U.S. Supreme Court, divided 4-4, rejected a Republican plea making a slightly different argument than today’s lawsuit.
