The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that voters who cast faulty mail-in ballots can afterward cast provisional votes. In a four to three ruling, the state Supreme Court found that the Butler County Board of Elections must count the provisional ballots of voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected for not properly following instructions.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said voters should be allowed to cast provisional ballots in person at their polling place if their mail ballots are rejected because of certain defects, in a ruling Wednesday that could give thousands of Pennsylvanians the ...

Pennsylvania’s highest court has ruled people whose mail ballots are rejected for not following technical procedures in state law can cast provisional ballots.