 in case about whether to count mail-in ballots that arrive on time in Pennsylvania, but with missing or incorrect dates handwritten by the voter on the outer envelope. Those dates are not used to verify a person's eligibility to vote. But in March, a panel of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with the lower court and found the materiality provision does not apply to how a voter casts their ballot in order for it to be counted. Anzila Wong, NPR News. Stocks finished higher on Wall Street. This is NPR.