NAACP Sues Over Pennsylvania Ballot Issue

An already messy battle in Pennsylvania over mail-in ballots stepped up on Friday, with the NAACP and an alliance of other voting rights group filing a lawsuit to insist certain votes should be counted. The issue at hand is whether a state law says that mail-in votes can be counted if they have a valid date written on the outside of the envelope they arrive in—regardless of whether they arrive on time.
Last week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court deadlocked over whether the law violated voting protections in the Civil Rights Act,...