{"id":1115,"date":"2026-06-29T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:12:28","slug":"late-mail-in-ballots-can-be-counted-after-election-day-supreme-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Late Mail-In Ballots Can Be Counted After Election Day, Supreme Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Crucial Quote<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe electorate\u2019s choice is made when voting is complete, not when ballots are received,\u201d Barrett wrote for the court Monday, also noting that while federal law sets out a specific day for the Electoral College to vote for presidential elections, it doesn\u2019t say anything about when votes should be received. \u201cThe Constitution thus envisions a system in which receipt of votes is necessarily divorced from voting,\u201d Barrett added.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=1113\">Trump Can\u2019t Fire Lisa Cook, Supreme Court Rules<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Which States Does This Impact?<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to Mississippi, 13 states <u>also<\/u> broadly allow ballots to arrive a certain number of days after Election Day, as long as they\u2019re postmarked in time: Alaska, California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia, along with Guam, Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to those states, a further 16 states allow overseas and military ballots specifically to arrive after Election Day: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Utah.<\/p>\n<h2>Chief Critic<\/h2>\n<p>Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas dissented from the court\u2019s opinion Monday, with Alito arguing the majority\u2019s decision was \u201cbased on a flawed understanding of the election-day statutes\u201d and federal law should block late-arriving ballots. Alito also sided with claims Republicans have made about laws on late-arriving ballots helping to enable fraud\u2014which is already exceedingly rare with mail-in ballots\u2014and argued laws on late-arriving ballots help \u201cbad actors seeking to stuff ballot boxes when early election results suggest a tight race.\u201d The court\u2019s ruling \u201copens up and fails to resolve a host of questions for state election officials and courts,\u201d Alito wrote. \u201cAnd it creates a serious risk of further undermining public confidence in our elections and our system of self-government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=1111\">Trump Gets More Power As Supreme Court Lets Him Fire Independent Officials<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Key Background<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling comes after the high court previously <u>sidestepped<\/u> the issue of late-arriving ballots in 2020, allowing ballots to arrive after Election Day in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election but declining to take up the case for oral arguments and issue a broader ruling. The RNC\u2019s challenge against Mississippi law is part of a broader effort by the GOP to oppose mail-in voting, despite the practice historically being <u>used<\/u> by many of the party\u2019s voters. Trump started strongly attacking mail-in voting during the 2020 election, falsely claiming the practice helped to enable fraud, which evidence does not support. He\u2019s ramped up those attacks again ahead of the November midterm elections, and <u>issued<\/u> an executive order in March that targeted mail-in voting and asked agencies to create lists of voters eligible to receive ballots, and for the U.S. Postal Service to only deliver ballots to those voters. A federal judge <u>blocked<\/u> that order last week, however, though the Trump administration is likely to appeal it.<\/p>\n<h2>Further Reading<\/h2>\n<p><u>Poll: Most Americans Support Mail-In Voting Despite Trump\u2019s \u2018Scam\u2019 Claim<\/u> (Forbes)<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coasttocoastmoverss.com\/?p=1109\">Supreme Court Rejects Trump\u2019s Request To Take Up E. 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