Washington, D.C., litigator Chuck Cooper told a Pennsylvania court that failing to include several hundred undated mail-in ballots from the official count in the recent GOP Senate primary amounts to disenfranchisement and goes against the broader purpose of the state’s election code.

“The object of the election code is to allow good Pennsylvanians to vote, not to play games of gotcha,” Cooper said, adding that such a finding could bring the state law into conflict with the federal Voting Rights Act.