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Hansi Lo Wang

Why 'undated' ballots have sparked a new election lawsuit in Pennsylvania

Election workers scan mail-in ballots at the Allegheny County Election Division warehouse in Pittsburgh on Thursday. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered local officials to hold off on counting ballots that arrive on time in envelopes without handwritten dates or with incorrect dates. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

In the key swing state of Pennsylvania, there's been a tangle of litigation over mail-in ballots that arrive on time to be counted but in envelopes that are missing dates handwritten by voters.

A new federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania on behalf of the Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP and other groups is now trying to stop local election officials from rejecting what are often called "undated ballots."

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