A federal court of appeals on Tuesday barred election authorities in Pennsylvania from rejecting mail-in ballots with wrongly or incorrectly dated return envelopes.

The litigation in the case stylized as Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections dates back nearly three years.

In November 2022, several Keystone State voters, elected officials and Democratic Party organizations sued all 67 county election boards over the "date instruction" rule, which prohibited counties from tallying votes sent in 'undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes."

In March, U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter, appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term, issued a memorandum opinion in the plaintiffs' favor. The court found the state's date rules for mail-in ballots violate the First and 1

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