The U.S. Supreme Court denied the Republican National Committee’s bid to prevent Pennsylvania voters from casting an in-person ballot after their previous mail-in ballot had been ruled ineligible, the Hill reported on Friday.

In November just prior to Election Day, the Supreme Court had left in place Pennsylvania’s highest court’s 4-3 ruling that election boards must count provisional ballots requested by voters when their mail-in ballots had been deemed invalid.

The ruling stood despite a state law saying such votes “shall not be counted” if the mail ballot was not received on time. The RNC had argued that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unconstitutionally usurped the power of the state’s legislature by going against written law.

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