(SRN NEWS) – The High Court has rejected a Trump administration challenge, the Court says states CAN count late-arriving mail-in ballots:
The Supreme Court ruling 5-4 that the State of Mississippi can count late ballots that arrive after Election Day. Justices ruling the ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day and show up within 5 business days.
The decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ballots to arrive and be counted some number of days after the election, provided they are postmarked by Election Day. The outcome spares officials the headache of changing their ballot rules just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections.
In just over half those states, the more forgiving deadlines apply only to ballots cast by military and overseas voters.
The court heard arguments in March in a case from Mississippi pitting the state against Trump’s Republican administration and the Republican and Libertarian parties. At issue was whether federal law sets a single Election Day that requires ballots to be both cast by voters and received by state officials.
The federal appeals court in New Orleans struck down a Mississippi law allowing ballots to be counted if they arrive within five business days of the election and are postmarked by Election Day.
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