PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania counties can begin printing and distributing mail ballots after the Pennsylvania Department of State finalized the list of candidates who will appear on the ballot Monday.

For now, mail-in ballots returned without a date on the outside of the envelope will not be counted in Pennsylvania.

The State Supreme Court declined to rule on the merits of the case, instead finding that the lower court lacked jurisdiction in its decision last month.

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is siding with lower court decisions to block two third-party presidential candidates from the battleground state's ballot in November's election.

A court decision in the presidential battleground of Pennsylvania means voters can cast a provisional ballot in place of a mail-in ballot that is rejected for a garden-variety mistake they made when they returned it.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out a lower court ruling that required such ballots to be counted during November’s presidential election.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower court's ruling from almost two weeks ago that had said the two most populous counties of the battleground state will not be able to throw out mail-in votes over incorrect envelope dates.