PHILADELPHIA — In a move that could help Mehmet Oz in his fight to become the GOP Senatorial nominee in Pennsylvania, a Philadelphia lawyer is preparing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower court decision over undated mail ballots — injecting further uncertainty after a ruling that had already jolted a tight and unresolved Republican primary.
That ruling, released Friday afternoon by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, had sent county elections boards, candidates, and lawyers scrambling as it appeared to suddenly allow them to count undated mail ballots that would have previously been rejected under state law.
Allowing that decision to go into effect before the Supreme Court can weigh in risks inviting chaos, attorney Joshua J. Voss, of the Kleinbard LLC, wrote in a motion Monday asking the circuit court to stay its order.
