State Rep. Tim Bonner, R-8th, the Butler County Republican Committee and others appealed an automatic hold on the Commonwealth Court’s ruling that the state’s no-excuse mail-in voting is unconstitutional.

In an application for termination of a stay filed with the Commonwealth Court on Monday, Bonner and county Republicans asked the court to end an automatic stay on the ruling, which was granted when the state appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court.

The Commonwealth Court ruled Friday that Act 77, which established a no-excuse mail-in voting scheme, violated the state constitution. Gov. Tom Wolf and Leigh Chapman, acting secretary of the commonwealth, appealed to the state’s high court the same day.

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