Pennsylvania has been ordered by the Supreme Court to separate late-arriving ballots.

Justice Alito's Supreme Court order rules that late-arriving ballots should be separated from other ballots until their legality is resolved.

Justice Alito's Supreme Court order rules that late-arriving ballots should be separated from other ballots until their legality is resolved.President Donald Trump and his allies have filed several lawsuits in the states of Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Georgia to scrutinize the legitimacy of mail-in votes and to ensure no extra ballots are being counted. Trump and his allies have been making unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud since Election Day. In Pennsylvania, the GOP won a Supreme Court order as Justice Samuel Alito ordered local election officials to separate mail-in ballots that had been postmarked before the election date but arrived much later.

The announcement, however, rejected the GOP request to leave the ballots uncounted. Instead, Justice Alito has noted that these late-arriving ballots could be tallied if counted separately. Nevertheless, a New York Times article asserts that the ruling could be moot as Democratic candidate Joe Biden has taken a lead in Pennsylvania even without counting the late arriving ballots.