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

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 — 12 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!

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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

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

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

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