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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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This will not end well at all.
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.
No it will not. If Mississippi is doing it, pack your go bag.
More and more often, no postmark appears on today’s mail.
‘Think I know how these are adjudicated...!
It would be easy enough to fake the postmark.
‘Affect’ is a verb. Illiterate ‘writers.’
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.
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.
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...
Bingo
Just make it so that all mail-in ballots need to be received 5 days before the election.
My in-person vote should count if I leave my house before the polls are scheduled to close. If my driver decides to go to dinner and pickleball before getting to the polling place, that is not my fault. If the car breaks down, I should be given 5 days.
Why does my vote count less than one without a chain of custody record?
EC
In California -it is seven days.
So someone with a Santa Claus sack full of “mail-in” ballots can show up at a polling venue seven days after election day - and those votes will be counted.
I always figured the Dems wait until the numbers come in on Election Day or the next day to calculate how many “mail-in” ballots are needed to flip the election. This has been done repeatedly in California, especially in Orange County - where late ballots have flipped the results.
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