More than 1.2 million applications have been approved in the Philadelphia region, and county officials said **not a single one** was challenged as coming from someone other than a qualified voter by today’s 5 p.m. deadline for bringing such challenges.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/live/elections-2020-candidates-updates-news-pennsylvania-20201030.html#card-464396260

Republicans did challenge 237 applications in Allegheny County (home to Pittsburgh), saying their voter ID numbers in the county list of requestors don’t match state data.

It’s unclear why there may be a mismatch in the data, which could occur for reasons beyond malfeasance.

And this is important, though we’ll have to see what happens, obviously:

Today’s deadline was the last opportunity state law provides for challenging mail votes. Lawmakers took a previous process for challenging actual *ballots* out of the law.

When they did, they left no specified process for challenging ballots as they are counted and no listed reasons why challenges would be allowed.

Other than by going to court, parties and campaigns may have no options for challenging ballots as they are processed and counted.