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US state court approves Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting expansion

Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court ruled in favour of mail-in voting Tuesday, as a contentious fight over access to voting continues in the US [File: Matt Slocum/AP Photo]

A wide expansion of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania survived a legal challenge on Tuesday before the state Supreme Court in a case brought by some of the same Republican state representatives who voted for the legislation nearly three years ago.

Millions of state voters have chosen to cast ballots by mail in recent elections, although Democrats have used it in far greater numbers and the law fell out of favour with Republicans as former President Donald Trump attacked it during his losing 2020 reelection campaign.

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