The KYW Newsradio All-Local - Saturday, November 2, 2024 (Morning Edition):

A federal judge has ordered the case involving Elon Musk and America PAC's million dollar voter sweepstakes to return back to a Pennsylvania state court for a hearing at Philadelphia's City Hall. The hearing is scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m.

The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania as the presidential campaigns vie in the final days before the election in the nation’s biggest battleground state.

The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that election officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected.

The ruling is a victory for voting-rights advocates, who had sought to force counties — primarily Republican-controlled counties — to let voters cast a provisional ballot on Election Day if they had realized that their mail-in ballot was to be rejected for various garden-variety errors.

As of Thursday, about 9,000 ballots out of more than 1.6 million returned have arrived at elections offices around Pennsylvania lacking a secrecy envelope, a signature or a date, according to state records.

President Biden continued touting himself as the most pro-labor president in history at a Northeast Philadelphia union hall Friday, as he announced a bail out for grocery workers pensions.

KYW Newsradio has learned the city's blue collar workers union and SEPTA workers have discussed setting a joint strike date.

New Jersey lawmakers are trying to close a loophole left open in a previous piece of legislation designed to protect people’s rights to privacy.