The Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of state election law that allows ballots to be received after election day, so long as they are postmarked by election day.
The questions was about whether federal election law preempted state election law on this matter.
Here’s more from Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog:
The court holds that federal election-day statutes do NOT preempt a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by, and received within, five days of Election day.
Justice Barrett writes that the “election-day statutes do not set a deadline for ballot receipt, so they do not prevent Mississippi from counting ballots postmarked after election day yet received afterward.”
Alito dissents, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch and in part by Kavanaugh.
Alito says that today’s decision “creates a serious risk of further undermining public confidence in our elections and our system of self-government.”
This truly sucks and will just allow more fraud in places like California.
Here’s the opinion:
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