US EditionSupreme Court agrees to decide if mail-in ballots can arrive after Election Day
- On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to consider whether mailed ballots must be received by Election Day rather than merely postmarked, reviewing a GOP challenge from the Republican National Committee and the state's Republican Party against Mississippi.
- After a 5th U.S. Circuit ruling, Mississippi appealed to the Supreme Court to preserve its five-business-day receipt window, with Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch arguing states can receive ballots postmarked by Election Day.
- Republicans argue the practice conflicts with federal election-date law, saying ballots must be received by Election Day, while President Donald Trump has challenged late receipt rules and groups representing veterans and retired Mississippians support counting delayed ballots.
- The high court is expected to hear the case next year and could issue an opinion by summer, affecting 17 states with such laws and 14 states with similar overseas voter measures.
- The RNC warned states like Mississippi risk chaos because absentee ballots received after Election Day can flip results and prompt distrust, while many laws protect overseas military members’ voting; Mississippi’s appeal is the Supreme Court’s fourth election mail case this term.
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US Supreme Court to decide if states can count mail-in ballots received after election day
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically impact mail-in voting practices in over two dozen states. The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee, challenges a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots postmarked by election day to be counted if received within five business days after an election. The Republican National Committee has argued this practice violates federal law under 3 U.S.C. § 1, which es…
Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Ballots Can Be Counted After Election Day
by Katelynn Richardson at CDN - The Supreme Court will decide whether states can accept ballots after Election Day. The justices agreed on Monday to hear Watson v. Republican National Committee, a challenge to Mississippi’s law allowing absentee ballots postmarked by election day to be counted up if they are received within five days. The question centers on whether federal laws … Click to read the rest HERE-> Supreme Court Will Decide Whether B…
Supreme Court to decide if states including Nevada can count late-arriving mail ballots - The Nevada Independent
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump. The justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel of three judges nominated by the Republican president on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the state law allowing ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day to be counted violated federal law. Mis…
The Supreme Court of Justice agreed to hear a case that could define future elections in multiple jurisdictions. Specifically, it has to do with the legality of counting mail votes that arrive after election day, a practice that currently occurs in at least 18 states. Among them are Pennsylvania, California, Ohio and Illinois. Read more]]>
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on whether ballot papers sent by mail and received after polling day should be counted, a matter with possible implications for mid-term elections in 2026.
The Supreme Court will decide whether to toss out thousands of ballots
Voters fill out their ballots at a polling station in the Hillsboro Old Stone School on November 4, 2025, in Hillsboro, Virginia. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case claiming that, for many decades, states have been counting ballots that should have been tossed out entirely. The premise of the GOP’s argument in Watson is that an 1872 law providin…
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