Pennsylvania court orders counting some votes to stop (Ld)

By Arul Louis New York, Nov 7 : After Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pulled ahead of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a state court has ordered election officials to stop counting some votes.
The ruling issued on Friday could delay the completion of voting in the state, where a victory could give the presidency to Biden.
The order applies to so-called provisional ballots, a second vote which some voters were allowed to cast on election day to correct errors in postal ballots that they had already sent in.
Ruling on cases filed by Republican Party members, the court said that such ballots should be kept separately pending a decision, but rejected demands that they should be rejected outright.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, about 100,000 provisional ballots were cast, but it was not clear how many of them were covered by the court’s order.
Another state Republican Party case asking the federal Supreme Court to stop the counting of late-arriving postal ballots is pending.