Republican lawsuits challenge mail ballot deadlines. Could they upend voting across the country?

AP ^ | 2/1/24 | CHRISTINE FERNANDO, EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and JACK DURA

[cotton1706]

Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two states in a legal maneuver that could have widespread implications for mail voting ahead of this year's presidential election.

A lawsuit filed last week in Mississippi follows a similar one last year in North Dakota, both brought in heavily Republican states before conservative federal courts. Democratic and voting rights groups are concerned about the potential impact beyond those two states if a judge rules that deadlines for receiving mailed ballots that stretch past Election Day violate federal law.

They say it's possible such a decision would lead to a nationwide injunction similar to one last year when a Texas judge temporarily paused the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.

[garfield]

Early voting for President and Vice President is against the law. See U.S. Code Title 3, Ch. 1, Sec. 1. “The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed in each State on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President.” THAT IS THE LAW - a Republic is based on the rule of law. Let’s follow the law. Why no one points this out is a mystery.

[clearcarbon]

"Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two states in a legal maneuver that could have widespread implications for mail voting ahead of this year's presidential election."