A federal court of appeals on Tuesday nixed an effort by the Republican Party to revive a case challenging Pennsylvania's use of mail-in ballots with wrongly or incorrectly dated return envelopes.

The years-old case began in November 2022 , when several voters, elected officials and Democratic Party organizations sued all 67 county election boards in the Keystone State over the so-called "date instruction" rule, which prohibited counties from tallying votes sent in "undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes."

While litigation dragged on and on, the plaintiffs got the relief they were asking for this spring. 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 foun

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