If you vote from Pennsylvania and choose to vote by mail, your ballots may be counted up to three days after Election Day.
This Monday, the Supreme Court allowed that key state in the face of the presidential elections to count the votes received in that way until 72 hours after November 3, thus rejecting a request from the Republicans to stop counting them when the polls close.
About 834,000 Hispanics live in the important industrial state (about 7% of its total population)
, according to the PEW Research Center.
Due to the repeated attacks of the President, Donald Trump, against voting by mail and its security, in these elections Democrats are voting by mail in much larger proportions than Republicans.
The Supreme Court justices voted 4-4, a tie confirming the state Supreme Court ruling that allowed election officials to receive and count ballots until November 6, even if they are not clearly postmarked, and as
long as there is no evidence that they were mailed after the polls closed.
President Trump has attacked vote-by-mail security countless times, leading Republicans to use this avenue far less than Democrats.
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Republicans, including the president's campaign, have opposed such an extension,
arguing that it violates federal law
that establishes Election Day as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and that such a decision can only be constitutionally made by lawmakers. , not the courts.
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Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberal justices in rejecting the call by Pennsylvania Republicans for the highest court to block the state court ruling.
The court did not issue a written opinion accompanying the decision, so it is impossible to say what motivated the two groups of judges to vote for or against.
Conservative judges have been reluctant to allow court-ordered changes to voting rules less than a month before the election.
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The Pennsylvania Democratic Party and its allies had sought an extension of the Election Day deadline for counting mail-in ballots, since registered Democratic voters are requesting mail-in ballots at a ratio of nearly 3 to 1 over the Republicans.
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This Monday's ruling comes after the ruling of the state Supreme Court, on September 17, in which it was also decided that to be counted until November 6, the ballots must be received by the electoral boards of each county before 5:00 pm
The state chairman of the Republican Party, Lawrence Tabas, said after the Supreme Court decision that the party does not agree and that the 4-4 vote, "only underscores the importance of having a complete Supreme Court as soon as possible," in reference to the long awaited confirmation from Conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Nancy Patton Mills, chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party,
accused Republicans of trying to sow confusion and disenfranchise eligible people
.
"This is a significant victory for Pennsylvania voters," Mills said in a statement.