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This case involves two voters who voted by provisional ballot in the 2024 Democratic Primary in April. These voters tried to vote by mail but their mail ballot packages were rejected because of a defect (in their case, a 鈥渘aked ballot鈥�). Most counties in Pennsylvania have long let voters vote by provisional ballot in these circumstances based on Pennsylvania law, which says that counties 鈥渟hall count鈥� voters鈥� provisional ballots in those circumstances. Butler County did not.

The voters appealed and won in the Commonwealth Court, after which the Republican Party, which intervened in the case, appealed and sought further review from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court take up this case and decide it before the election.

On October 23, 2024, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided the case in voters鈥� favor, ruling that the Pennsylvania Election Code required their ballots to be counted.

On October 28, 2024, the Republican Party filed an application for a stay in the United States Supreme Court, based on a radical argument that this purely state law decision violated the U.S. Constitution, and asked the Supreme Court to intervene and order new rules for the treatment provisional ballots in Pennsylvania. The voters filed their response on October 30. On November 1, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Republican Party's application for a stay, which ensured that voters whose mail ballots were rejected because of a paperwork mistake could vote a provisional ballot on Election Day and have that ballot counted.

In January 2025, the Republican Party requested the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case on the merits by taking up certiorari review.