Nearly 20, 000 voters who did n’t receive absentee ballots were given a new order from a Pennsylvania court on Friday to provide them with them. The office will remain open for longer office hours until Election Day to receive them.

After a hearing on Thursday about issues the election company and its merchant, ElectionIQ, had with providing votes through the U.S. Postal Service, Court of Common Pleas Judge David Ridge ordered the solution.

In one county of the crucial battleground state, there may be considerable voter fraud. The position was won by former president Joe Biden by about 80, 000 vote in 2020 while former president Donald Trump won by about 40, 000 in 2016.

The seller may n’t verify the reputation of 13, 000 to 17, 000 absentee ballots that were requested before the date, Ridge wrote.

In addition, 1, 200 county residents who requested ballots from being temporarily out of state said they had n’t received ballots, Ridge wrote.

And according to Ridge, 365 record votes were sent to voters that contained labels that corresponded to various voters.

The region courthouse’s election office was ordered by the Court of Common Pleas in Erie to:

• Be open more on Friday and Monday, from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m.
• Give citizens new votes that are lost and could be returned to the office or a fall box it.
• Send fresh vote to out-of-state citizens by over email.

Rick Hasen, a law professor at University of California Los Angeles and tracks election laws, said the jury’s order” seems smart” at first glance.

Marc Elias, a Democratic attorney who works on election claims, called the judge’s selection” a key success for the citizens of Erie County”.