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The justices on Monday declined to hear the cases, although three justices – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch – argued in dissents that the court should have taken up the issue in order to provide guidance for future elections. All three said the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision did not change the outcome of the election. Biden won Pennsylvania.
“We are fortunate that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to change the receipt deadline for mail-in ballots does not appear to have changed the outcome in any federal election,” Thomas wrote in adissent. “This Court ordered the county boards to segregate ballots received later than the deadline set by the legislature. And none of the parties contend that those ballots made an outcome-determinative difference in any relevant federal election. But we may not be so lucky in the future.”
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