The Supreme Court declined Thursday to halt a lower court’s ruling that permitted the counting of undated mail-in ballots in a Pennsylvania race.
A Republican candidate for a county judgeship had brought his election battle to the Supreme Court in a fight that could have affected statewide elections and the fate of undated mail-in ballots.
David Ritter ran for a seat on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Ritter had asked the high court, in a petition submitted to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. last month, to block a lower court’s decision allowing officials to count undated mail-in ballots in his race, in which he holds a slim lead.