@sacramentourbanmedia916: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that states may continue counting mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive afterward, upholding Mississippi’s election law in a closely watched voting rights case. In a 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee, the justices determined that federal laws establishing a national Election Day do not require election officials to receive every ballot by that date. Instead, the Court said the statutes set the deadline for casting a ballot—not when it must be delivered. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court’s three liberal justices. She said Congress did not include a ballot-receipt deadline in the federal election laws, meaning states have the authority to count ballots that are mailed on time but arrive after Election Day. The ruling preserves Mississippi’s law, which allows election officials to count mail ballots received within five days after the election as long as they were postmarked by Election Day. The decision also protects similar laws in 14 states and the District of Columbia, where late-arriving mail ballots are counted if they were mailed on time. Many states also have separate provisions allowing military and overseas ballots to arrive after Election Day. The Republican National Committee and Mississippi’s Libertarian Party challenged the law, arguing that federal election statutes require all ballots to be received by Election Day. The Trump administration supported that position, maintaining that Election Day should serve as both the voting and ballot-receipt deadline. Lower courts had reached different conclusions, with the Fifth Circuit ruling that federal law overrode Mississippi’s grace period. Monday’s Supreme Court decision reversed that ruling, leaving the state’s ballot-counting policy in place ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.#fyp #viral #politics

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