The U.S. Supreme Court could decide a case regarding whether voters’ ballots rolling in days or weeks after Election Day still can be counted.
Just weeks before last November’s election, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case from Mississippi that federal law requires mail-in ballots to arrive by Election Day. Mississippi had allowed for counting ballots that arrived up to five days after Election Day. The ruling didn’t impact the 2024 election.
At least 17 states and the District of Columbia count ballots that arrive late, with at least two allowing them to arrive as many as 14 days afterward.
On April 18, U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the Southern District of Mississippi ordered a stay on further litigation in the Mississippi case until the U.S. Supreme Court decides on the matter. Though Mississippi Secretary of State Michael…
