Posted on 11/10/2025 12:04:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Setting the stage for a major ruling on election law, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal law requires ballots to be not only cast by voters but also received by election officials by Election Day. As part of the list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday, the court took up Watson v. Republican National Committee, a challenge by the Republican National Committee and others to a Mississippi law (as well as similar laws in 30 other states and the District of Columbia) that allow mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are received within five business days after Election Day.
The dispute began in 2024, when the RNC – along with the Mississippi Republican Party and two individuals – went to federal court to challenge the Mississippi law. Their case was later joined with a similar case brought by the Libertarian Party of Mississippi.
A federal judge in Gulfport, Mississippi, upheld the law, rejecting the challengers’ contention that it conflicted with federal law. Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola explained that, according to Supreme Court precedent, “Congress set a national election day to avoid the ‘evils’ of burdening citizens with multiple election days and of risking undue influence upon voters in one state from the announced tallies in states voting earlier. Neither of those concerns,” he concluded, “is raised by allowing a reasonable interval for ballots cast and postmarked by election day to arrive by mail.”
The challengers appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which reversed Guirola’s decision. It ruled that federal election law, which sets the Tuesday after the first Monday in November as the “election” day for federal offices, requires all ballots to be received by that day. The full 5th Circuit declined to...
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It seems the Constitution allows every state to do whatever the heck they want. My problem with that is if they stuff the ballot box for their preferred candidate, it invalidates the votes of every electorally honest state. That interstate honesty problem will probably be the focus of creating a national requirement. It won’t stop cheating as there are so many ways to do it. But it will go a long way towards making the whole thing a bit fairer.
California, as always, leads the way. We don’t need late arriving ballots when we can just “cure” the ballots we have. By memory it was 4-6 CA houses races in 2024 where the GOP led on Election Day, but lost after ballots were cured up to three weeks after the election
If candidates and citizens had standing, then wrongs could be corrected in court.
Civil and/or criminal.
And if voter fraud was made a capital offense, we’d have a lot less of it.
Another solution...
A Constitutional amendment to make federal elections one day only, nationwide.
“And if voter fraud was made a capital offense, we’d have a lot less of it.”
The problem with jailing people for non-violent crimes is the annual cost for each prisoner is enough could send your kid to Harvard for a year. We need some alternative punishments. The other issue is space. Prisons are crowded with people so violent that if they’re out and about they’ll be hospitalizing or killing innocent citizens.
Who said anything about jailing?
It should be election DAY, not election month, or keep counting until the democrat wins.
I just checked.
Seditious conspiracy isn’t a capital crime.
That needs to change.
I’m not picky about the form of capital punishment used.
A CAPITAL OFFENSE is one where the penalty is death, so jailing will be a short term cost.
FRY a couple of ballot stuffers, and it will be...problem solved.
Even demonRATs don't want to die for a couple of freebies paid for stuffing the ballot box.
I don’t know if you noticed, but Deep State’s gotten worse to that problem.
For example, while LA’s last mayoral race took days to count, the recent Prop 50 vote was decided on Election Night.
Without an audit we’ll never know if CA really voted for it.
Democrats would gasp at that idea.
That sequence of events crystallized for me that the game is rigged, has been crooked for years and no way eists to fix the results once the election has taken place.
The left has made great progress towards a banana republic. That is why we need to pass election and census legislation to eliminate illegals, clean up voter roles and mandate ID for federal elections. We need a redone census as well.
If we can’t achieve those goals with the filibuster it needs to be nuked for the survival of America.
No excuses. Just vote - WITH ID. ;-)
Flogging, the stocks, the pillory, the scold's bridle, keelhauling ...
It’s like Darren McGavin winning a “major prize”
WOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE-—IF MAIL IN BALLOTS DISAPPEARED AS FAST AS THEY APPEARED>
GO VOTE-—IN PERSON-—PROVIDE ID-—NAME ON VOTING ROLLS-—
NO “PROVISIONAL” BALLOTS ALLOWED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES-—
PURPLE FINGER
PROP 50 WAS DECIDED A WEEK BEFORE THE “ELECTION’.
THE “ELECTION” WAS THEATER
My takeaway - send the prisoner to Harvard. For at least a year.
That'll teach 'em.
“That’ll teach ‘em.”
Do you have a license for that sense of humor?
:)
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