election law -- rick hasen is now online all but screaming -- rick hasen is a very mild-mannered guy, which you should know for concontext,t he is yelling now -- "if you live in pennsylvania at this point, you should not use the u.s. mail to return your ballot. or at this point anywhere in the u usa. use a drop box or government office, if allowed, or vote in person. yes, what he said. we are seeing court decisions, including from the united states supreme court, coming in fast and furious now about how long various states will be allowed to continue accepting ballots. republicans in states like wisconsin and pennsylvania, north carolina, have been trying to cut short the time after which ballots won't be counted. pennsylvania today decided that they will segregate, they will set aside any ballots that are received after the close of the polls on tuesday, even if those ballots were put in the mail and postmarked long before election day. they're going to set those ballots aside, if they arrive after the polling places close on tuesday, because they know republicans inevitably will tr

for insight, i want to go to cnn election analyst rick hasen. rick, explain the court's ruling and your reaction. >> well, earlier on, the secretary of state entered into an agreement with plaintiffs who had sued over voting rules that said any ballots postmarked by election day but arrived november 10th, would be counted. what the court said today is it might be unconstitutional for the secretary of state to have made that extension and, therefore, all of the ballots that come in after election day are going to be set aside, they're going to be segregated. and there could be future litigation that might cause those ballots not to be counted. >> do you expect the ruling to appeal to the supreme court? and is there a any way to know how they might respond? >> they could appeal to the supreme court. there's really not a lot of time left. the court might not want to get involved. but one of the things the supreme court has consistently been saying is, to federal courts, don't change the rules just before the election. usually, that was more of a lib

this into english, democrats more days to count, what changes here and how significance is it, rick hasen 5-3 vote. and three liberals on the court decenting and says this is going to lead to disenfranchise of voters. getting this deadline now, for anyone who did not plan for this to happen, they have to postmark or it is not going to count. that's what it means in wisconsin. it means there could be other ways to get your ballot back. you may not rely on the u.s. post office. that's the best way to go right now. >> in pennsylvania, the supreme court extended the deadline three days after the election in terms to count. the republicans are asking the supreme court to reverse that decision. so is this wisconsin now precedent? what does it mean? >> it is a different situation. the pennsylvania extension came from the state's court rather than federal court. justice kagan and justice roberts say we may treat it differently and justice brett kavanaugh says no. we are running up against the clock. >> the bottom line, any other cases you are watching it closely here? >> we are almost done at the