Shortly after Pennsylvania’s acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman told counties that they should ignore election law and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively said mail-in ballots without proper dates can’t be counted, the Republican National Committee announced a lawsuit against the Commonwealth.
As The Federalist previously reported, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a 3rd Circuit Court decision validating undated mail-in ballots. The high court vacated the lower court’s ruling, meaning the 3rd Circuit’s decision can no longer act as precedent in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey — the states under the lower court’s jurisdiction.
But Chapman decided the Supreme Court’s decision “provides no
