The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of the Democratic Party after it had granted a three-day extension to count late mailed-in ballots for the battleground state.

In a 5-2 vote, Pennsylvania’s highest court provided three additional days for its election day deadline. The court decided that in order for the ballots to be counted, it should be postmarked before the time the polls have closed and should be handed over the county election board before 5 p.m. on November 6.

Pennsylvania is one of the 18 U.S. states which allows a post-election day deadline. This comes off really concerning, especially since half of these states have supported the President in the previous 2016 elections.

Moreover, the Court also allowed the use of satellite election offices, as well as placing several drop boxes across the county.

Finally, the court also allowed Pennsylvania’s poll-watching-law. Under the said legislation, volunteers from the different political parties can sit inside the polling place to monitor the Election activity. However, the President has strongly argued against its irregularities, including allowing registered voters of the county to become poll-watchers. The GOP politicians argued that since Democrat voters outnumber Republicans, they can easily intimidate GOP supporters who also wanted to monitor the count.

Despite the Republican’s strong dissent against the vote-by-mail system, the Supreme Court allowed the crucial three-day extension. This is in connection to the legislation that the state to expand the access of mail-in voting. Given the increasing health concerns about the coronavirus, the state expects that around 3 million American voters would opt to cast their votes by mail.

The number is staggering. In fact, it is 10 times higher than the number of people who have voted by mail in the 2016 election. At that time, the president enjoyed a 44,000 lead against former Secretary of State and failed Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton. Representatives from Trump’s campaign also expressed their concern that the three-day extension would allow “fraudsters” to vote multiple times, destroy or even tamper ballot forms.

According to recent polls, the number shows that there is a slim gap between Trump and former Vice President and Democratic nominee, Joe Biden. In fact, if Biden lost Pennsylvania, it would have a massive impact on his chances of defeating the President.

On the other hand, another Democrat-led state, Florida, has discarded a whopping 35,000 vote-by-mail ballots during the state primary as it failed to arrive on time for the 7 p.m. deadline. The number of rejected ballots make up for the 1.5 percent of the total votes.