U.S. Supreme Court Says Federal Law Does Not Stop States From Accepting Mail Ballots that Arrive After Election Day

Posted on by June 29, 2026

on June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in Watson v Republican National Committee, 24-1260. This is the case in which the Republican National Committee had sued Mississippi over the state law that says postal ballots may be counted as long as they were postmarked on or before election day, but don’t arrive until three days after election day. The RNC argued that the 1872 federal law, telling the states to hold congressional elections on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, really means that all the ballots must be received by election day.

The majority upheld the Mississippi law. This sentence from the majority opinion summarizes the holding: “The election-day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt, and we cannot add to the words Congress chose.” Justice Amy Comey Barrett wrote the majority opinion. The dissent is written by Justice Sam Alito, and signed by Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanagh, and Neil Gorsuch.

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U.S. Supreme Court Says Federal Law Does Not Stop States From Accepting Mail Ballots that Arrive After Election Day — 52 Comments

  1. next – ballots received/counted every day until term of office ends – 2/4/6 YEARS ???

    total subversion —

    abs ballots = substitute for voting in person on e days

    LAYERS OF 0.666 IQ MORONS IN DEVIL CITY AND MEDIA

  2. President Trump is a tyrant because he wants ballots to arrive and be counted on time! Democracy demands that elections go on for however long it takes for Democrats to win!

  4. Is it possible we could have both of those things at once all the time?

  8. President Trump just needs to issue an executive order that Marbury v Madison was incorrectly decided, and any executive orders needed for election integrity and border / migration / national security after that.

  9. Persons should be able to vote continuously, casting a ballot each month. If they skip a month, votes could be credited to the voters account. If they wanted to vote every month they could, or they could wait and cast several months worth of votes at once. There might be some limit such as having a limit of 24 votes (two years).

    There might be no need for mail balloting. If you are at college or on vacation, just vote when you return to your home. If there is mail balloting and a vote is received after the end of the month, just apply it to the next month.

  10. Sounds complicated. The only part I agree with is no more mail voting. I’d have in person only votes, once a year.

  11. President Trump needs to rein in the tyrants in black dresses.

  12. President Andrew Jackson was a good role model as far as that goes.

  16. This doesn’t really suprise me. I think postmarked date is pretty standard for a number of processes.

  18. Because caucusing should take place at the election hall on election night, and one election a year is enough. There’s really no need for any election related activities on any other day.

  19. The idea is that each group (party, faction, etc) would persuade people to join them through speeches, displays, one on one conversations, etc.

  20. Bernie Goetz is almost 80. If he’s still alive. We need someone younger.

  21. JR posted:

    “Persons should be able to vote continuously, casting a ballot each month.”

    Why stop there? Why not designate all legislators as agents of the voters, and require every legislator collect agency contracts from every voter? If there are 100 seats in a legislature, every legislator wopuld have to get signed agency contracts from at least 1/2 % of all registered voters to serve as a legislator. no need for districting; they could collect agency contracts from any eligible voter in the state. Any legislator who collected a number of agent contracts that are at least a whole multiple of the required minimum would have that many votes. Voters could cancel their agency contracts at any time. Any legislator whose number of agency contracts drops below the minimum required number would lose their seat and be recalled.

  22. RE TYRANT TRUMP POWER TO PURGE MOST EXEC OFFICERS —

    REVISED USA CONST JAN 1, 2026

    Article II
    Sec. 1. The executive Power shall be vested in a President and the other elected and appointed executive officers of the United States of America who shall take Care that the Laws and Treaties be faithfully executed.
    —-
    ART VII
    Sec. 6. (1) Each Elector may vote for 1 or more candidates for each executive or judicial office (including 1 write-in vote for each position).
    (2) The candidate(s) getting the most votes shall be elected (for the longest terms respectively).
    —–
    Sec. 10. (1) The Electors shall elect at nonpartisan elections a President and Vice-President (jointly), a Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Treasurer in the United States and 1 or more Marshals and 1 or more District Attorneys in each judicial district in [even] years for [2] year terms.
    (2) No Person except a natural born Citizen shall be eligible to the Office of President or Vice-President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

  23. JR/WZ —

    RE VOTER AGENTS — AGENT WOULD HAVE VOTING POWER EQUAL TO NUMBER OF VOTERS WANTING HIM/HER. [SEE SOME CORP BD DIR – VOTING POWER = SHARES].

    ONLY TOP N AGENTS WITH THE MOST VOTERS NEED MEET IN PERSON — OR ALL ELECTRONIC MEETINGS [WITH 101 PCT SECURITY SYSTEMS ].

  29. Stanley posted:

    “No. Just no.

    We don’t need a never ending campaign season.”

    Maybe, we do. They don’t seem to listen to the voters until they need their votes.

  30. They would just give away more of some people’s money to other people to get votes. Nothing good about it.

  31. The caption says GOP but the companion case was Mississippi Libertarian Party. Losing 4-5 is better than I expected. This was a dumb case for the LP to waste a scotus visit on.

  32. Trump should be on the Supreme Court. If anyone can be president and on the court it’s Him.

  33. The scum who post here don’t bother me. Logic tells me that when BAN’s subhuman filth is against me, it is a sure sign that I am following the Constitution.

  35. Are you sure it’s not Knapp? What about this “Cyberpig” we heard about lately? Or the other guy with a little kid in his picture, what was his his name, I forgot?

  37. No, it’s the real Barrett. Nobody else would be stupid enough to think anyone in government still follows the constitution, much less her.

    The constitution turned into a children’s game of telephone with Marbury v Madison (1803), and was routinely ignored and violated, including by its authors, from the beginning. It turned into an absolute joke after the improper adoption of “amendments” by states under federal military occupation following an illegal (under its own terms) counterevolutionary uncivil war. Its a bad joke now.

  38. Trump 4ever is right. I should of appointed Myself instead of that conniving broad. How did I not know that just because she gives good head it don’t mean she got a good head on her shoulders? After all the broads I been through you think I’d know a thing or two about broads.

  40. Lots of people love to troll. Me, you, and probably anyone else who bothers to read this, if anyone is still reading, to take just a few examples.

  41. Honestly, at this point, what difference does it make?
    – Killary rod’em Klingon

  42. Is it true that Catholic school girls don’t wear panties and all have to pass an oral exam administered by a priest to pass grade school, as well as an anal exam administered by a priest to pass middle school? Is it also true they all have to get manually examined by a priest every day until they finish high school to see if their hymen is still intact?

    I heard it’s true. Lots of people are saying that. I don’t know if it’s true. That’s just what I heard.

    Also, wasn’t Amy Barrett a Catholic school girl?

  43. Amy Vivian Coney was born in 1972 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Linda (née Vath) and Michael Coney.[22][23] The eldest of seven children, she has five sisters and a brother. Her father worked as an attorney for Shell Oil Company, and her mother was a high school French teacher and homaker. Her family is devoutly Catholic, and her father is an ordained deacon at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Metairie, Louisiana, where she grew up.[28][29] Barrett attended St. Mary’s Dominican High School, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school in New Orleans.[30] She was student body vice president of the school and graduated in 1990

  46. All girl high school? You just know there had to be all sorts of lesbian labia licking going on, amirite?

  49. I knew Amy Coney as a young law clerk. She definitely gave excellent oral presentations. I found her to be very persuasive.

  50. Teenage girls definitely blossom in an all girls learning environment. I highly recommend it for your young ladies.

  52. I really like the suggestion that Trump go full Andrew Jackson and tell the court to “now enforce (your decision).”

    If he doesn’t, that’s strike two against him, with strike one being appointing her to begin with.

    Three strikes and our civilization is OUT.

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