US EditionSupreme Court agrees to decide if mail-in ballots can arrive after Election Day
The Supreme Court will decide if ballots postmarked by Election Day but received later can be counted, affecting 16 states with similar laws, the National Conference of State Legislatures said.
- 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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States run presidential elections but federal law sets the standards that must be met, and that specifies that election day in America is “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November” of even-numbered years. So can states arbitrarily say they’re going to have an election week, accepting ballots that arrive after the election day deadline? That’s now pending before the Supreme Court. It used to be that voters lined up at polling stations …
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