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Supreme Court case could have major affect on 2026 midterms
Just the News ^ | : November 16, 2025 7:43pm | Andrew Rice

Posted on 11/16/2025 5:51:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee, centers around a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after an election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agree to take up a case that could have an effect on the 2026 midterm elections.

The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee, centers around a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after an election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. The Mississippi law was enacted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fifteen other states and the District of Columbia have similar laws that allow domestic mail-in ballots to be received after Election Day, as long as the ballot is postmarked by the date of an election. In Illinois, mail-in ballots can be received up to 14 days after Election Day.

The nation’s highest court will decide whether to uphold a ruling from the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said ballots must be received by Election Day to be counted.

Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, celebrated the court’s decision to take up the mail-in ballot challenge. He said the court’s decision is especially important because it will set a precedent for election law going into the 2026 midterms.

“The Supreme Court now has the chance to set the record straight: Federal law clearly says that ballots must be received by Election Day,” Snead told the Center Square. “Despite this, some states continue to allow absentee ballots to pour in days or even weeks late.”

“This case gives the Supreme Court the chance to resolve that question once and for all,” Snead said.

Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, said the...

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; midterms; scotus

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1 posted on 11/16/2025 5:51:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This will not end well at all.


2 posted on 11/16/2025 5:55:54 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SCOTUS ducked this issue when it refused to hear any cases about the 2020 Big Steal. It can finally do the right thing for a change on election integrity.


3 posted on 11/16/2025 5:58:46 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: No name given

No it will not. If Mississippi is doing it, pack your go bag.


4 posted on 11/16/2025 6:00:32 PM PST by JZelle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More and more often, no postmark appears on today’s mail.

‘Think I know how these are adjudicated...!


5 posted on 11/16/2025 6:02:49 PM PST by Does so (☞GOP should fund a new party. Call it the "Muslim Party", to track it.....Dem☭¢rat ∅ ™ ½¼)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It would be easy enough to fake the postmark.


6 posted on 11/16/2025 6:06:45 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

‘Affect’ is a verb. Illiterate ‘writers.’


7 posted on 11/16/2025 6:14:46 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I could be wrong but don’t see this ending well.

Your tax return is not considered late if it is postmarked by April 15 so there’s that.


8 posted on 11/16/2025 6:31:43 PM PST by plain talk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why not 6 or 7 or 10 days? Isn’t 5 days arbitrary? I would prefer that all ballots be in the hands of the clerk by close of polls on election day.


9 posted on 11/16/2025 6:47:00 PM PST by healy61
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To: healy61
Why not 6 or 7 or 10 days? Isn’t 5 days arbitrary? I would prefer that all ballots be in the hands of the clerk by close of polls on election day.

Just keep finding and counting ballots until you win.

10 posted on 11/16/2025 6:49:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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To: Ge0ffrey
It would be easy enough to fake the postmark.

When Freeper BlackElk (RIP) was an active attorney, and he was pushing a deadline, he knew someone at the New Haven Post Office who would smudge the postmark for him. He did NOT use that for election fraud.
11 posted on 11/16/2025 7:27:15 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Only one solution: Unless you are in the military, serving overseas, absolutely no “mail-in” voting should be allowed...

In addition, government-validated voter ID cards should be required, and they should have a date-time-stamp punched onto it, immediately upon voting...

In addition, here in MD, where busloads of DC residents are bused from voting station to voting station, it would dramatically shorten the lines on election day...


12 posted on 11/16/2025 9:18:59 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Ge0ffrey

Bingo


13 posted on 11/16/2025 9:25:35 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (Tthe trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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