A new Trump administration Justice Department could enforce a federal court’s ruling requiring only ballots arriving on or before Election Day to be counted, voter integrity advocates said.
Just weeks before last November’s election, the U.S. 5th 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 counting ballots that arrived up to five days after Election Day.
Yet at least 17 states and the District of Columbia allow mail-in ballots rolling in days and weeks after Election Day to be counted.
“States should look carefully at the 5th Circuit decision and see that federal law is clear that ballots should arrive by Election Day,” J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, told The Daily Signal.
The legal foundation has sued in…
