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I don't think so. As long as they are postmarked on or before election day they are valid.
That's it. End of story. Some states allow a few days for late mail to come in. From my understanding the vast majority of mail ins arrived before election day becasue people wanted to make sure they get in. After all Trump was already trying to nobble the US Post Office.
The Repubs were trying to argue that votes received after the election even if they had been mailed before hand should be excluded. In fact any votes that came in this form were counted but also identified and put aside - just in case they would be deemed invalid.
However even excluding these votes has to have the premise that they would have affected the outcome. If 4000 arrived late but the final winning margin is 40,000 votes then clearly these votes do not impact on the final result.
I have no idea where Lucky is getting info that Pennsylvania has late votes that were not postmarked early. Perhaps they do. So exactly how many are there ? We can be very confident that the Republican scrutineers would be on such votes in a flash. Dems as well I reckon. But I cannot see any way such votes getting past the checkers in the first place - and certainly not 20,000 plus. At last count Biden was 41,000 votes ahead and still pulling away. (there is a possibility that overseas late arriving votes could swing back to Trump. But the lead is now so big that has been deemed impossible.)
All properly made votes received on the day or before hand are valid and must be counted. The only way I can see a case being made is to somehow "invalidate" hundreds of thousands of Biden votes across 3-4 states to enable the final figures to show a Trump "victory". Good luck with that.
Supreme Court orders separate count of late-arriving Pa. ballots
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Pennsylvania election boards to separately count mail ballots that arrived after Election Day, while rejecting a GOP request to stop counting those votes.The ord…
thehill.com