LINCOLN- A case concerning a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision allowing the county of ballots that were mailed by Election Day and received within three days is one of many filed after the national election. Nebraska's Attorney General Doug Peterson filed a friend-of-the-court brief challenging some ballots.

The Republican Party of Pennsylvania filed the original challenge and is asking the Supreme Court to hear it. Peterson joined the brief filed by Oklahoma's AG, along with other states including Indiana, Kansas, Tennessee and West Virginia. The Attorney General's Office said the state joined in brief to “to maintain the proper separation of powers within state governments.”

Another group of 10 states filed a similar amicus brief It argues that Pennsylvania overstepped its constitutional authority in accepting late ballots, that voting by mail creates voter fraud risks and that the decision to accept ballots after Election Day exacerbated risks of absentee ballot fraud.

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