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Supreme Court rejects bid by GOP not to count some Pennsylvania ballots

Residents of Philadelphia wait in line around city hall to cast their ballot on the last day of early voting in Pennsylvania [Matthew Hatcher/AFP]

The United States Supreme Court has dismissed an effort by Republicans to prevent the counting of provisional ballots in Pennsylvania – a move that would have meant thousands of votes were not tallied.

Republicans in the state, which Joe Biden and the Democrats narrowly won in the 2020 US presidential election on their way to victory, had argued that “tens of thousands of votes” could be at stake and ought to have been rejected.

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