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After months of primaries, polls, and (often wrong) predictions, Election Day is finally here. Stay up to date on all of the returns and results as Daily Intelligencer’s political team liveblogs the 2016 presidential election. It’s time, America.
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New front opens in already tense Pennsylvania primary election aftermath
Pennsylvania mail ballots submitted without a date on the envelope last year should be counted, a federal appeals court said Friday, a ruling that could mean thousands more votes get counted in elections moving forward — starting with this past Tuesday’s primary.
The ruling will also almost certainly reignite the smoldering political fight over undated mail ballots; create new questions and pressure for county elections officials as they continue to count votes from this week’s primary; and create another potential opening for county-by-county legal challenges as the Senate Republican primary heads toward a likely recount. The full extent of the decision’s impact is unclear, because the court issued a judgment and said an opinion would come later.
