Carter Walker of Votebeat

Thousands of challenges have been filed in 14 counties, many by right-wing activists, trying to get ballots disqualified, falsely claiming Pennsylvanians living abroad aren’t eligible.

A coalition of voting rights groups is pushing back against the challenges, calling them a “malicious attempt” to disenfranchise voters.

Voters who make a disqualifying mail ballot error are entitled to cast a provisional ballot on Election Day at a polling place and have it counted, per a new court ruling.

The rejections mean that the rules for mail ballot voting will likely remain mostly unchanged for the Nov. 5 presidential election.

Voting experts were encouraged by the poll’s finding that voter confidence is strongest at the county level, which is where elections are actually run in Pennsylvania.

Commonwealth Court says Washington County erred when it failed to notify voters that it planned to reject their mail ballots.

The decision to vacate a lower court ruling over a technicality could affect thousands of mail ballot voters this November.