Supreme Court allows 3-day extension for Pennsylvania ballot counting

Election officials in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania must accept mail ballots that arrive up to three days after the election under an order issued Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The ruling was a defeat for Republicans who said counting late ballots would inject chaos into an already complicated general election.

The justices declined to put a hold on a state Supreme Court ruling that said ballots arriving as late as 5 p.m. on the Friday after the election must be counted, unless there's evidence that a ballot was mailed after Election Day.