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This is a huge stretch, and the opinion is being taken way out of context. Louisiana was effectively holding a GENERAL ELECTION in OCTOBER. SCOTUS said you must hold the General Election on the defined day for Federal Elections. Nobody is going to argue that early voting, vote by mail, etc was or is illegal, nor that counting has to be complete by midnight. The opinion opens with the simple statement:

"Under 2 U. S. C. §§ 1 and 7, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in an even-numbered year "is established" as the date for federal congressional elections. Louisiana's "open primary" statute provides an opportunity to fill the offices of United States Senator and Representative during the previous month, without any action to be taken on federal election day. The issue before us is whether such an ostensible election runs afoul of the federal statute. We hold that it does."

Louisiana complied with the ruling by moving it's runoff to December, after holding their General Election on the federally mandated Tuesday in November.

People should read the actual decision. It's not a complex or difficult read.

https://www.leagle.com/decision/1997589522us671584

Your right, it's not difficult. Fully explained in #16 above.

States can NOT count, and announce the results of, ballots PAST "election day" as set forth by the Congress.

If that were permissible, then a state could continue counting ballots received a month or more after "election day." It would completely destroy our election process.

It's a slam dunk.

If the defendant states can NOT completely remove the votes counted AFTER "election day" and ONLY report votes tallied as of 11:59 on "election day," then their election results violate federal law & the LOVE 9 - 0 decision.