re: SCOTUS: ballots can be counted after election day

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States are corrupt and wrong and you’re expecting the corrupt, wrong states to fix their process?

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Is the Fed not?

The Dems don't need to pack the court.

These states allow ballots received after election day to be counted.


Mississippi, Alaska, Texas

West Virginia

California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Washington

Notes:
Texas’ deadline is 5 PM of the day following the election da

Virginia and Massachusetts allow until the 3rd day after the election.

Nevada allows until the 4th day after the polls close. If there’s an “unclear” postmark and it’s received within three days, it’s fine. Nevada voters automatically get a ballot in the mail.

New Jersey allows until-postmarked ballots up to two days after the election.

California, New York and Oregon all get six days after the polls close. California is also a universal mail-in voting state.

If the ballot has “no postmark, a postmark with no date, or an illegible postmark,” the date the voter put on their envelope determines the vote’s validity.

Alaska and Maryland have 10 days.

Illinois has two weeks.

Washington allows three weeks. Washington is also a universal mail-in voting state. If the postmark is “missing or illegible,” the date the voter put on the ballot determines the validity.

It seems that the post office really runs into a lot of issues in figuring out how to postmark ballots in the mail.


ETA: Mississippi might have changed their law already.

Justice Alito writes in the dissenting opinion, “Federal law designates ‘the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November’ as ‘election day,’ 3 U. S. C. §21, and provides that elections for federal office must be held on that date,” noting that the electorate must, in accordance with federal election-day statutes, make its choice on election day.

“If ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated,” he continues. “The acceptance of these late-arriving ballots effectively postpones the date on which the electorate’s choice is made, and federal law precludes that postponement.”

He further argues that the definition of “election” in “election day” is the “expression of the electorate’s choice,” making it necessary that the final submission and collection of ballots must occur on one election day, not five days after, as permitted by Mississippi law.

“Back when all voting occurred in person, the voters went to the polls on election day. They then completed ballots and turned them over to election officials. When the polls closed, those officials had in their possession a fixed collection of ballots, and taken together, those ballots embodied the electorate’s collective choice,” he writes.

Today, the use of mail-in voting, he writes, “cannot change the fact that under federal law, the electorate’s collective choice must still be authoritatively expressed on election day.”

“The Court disagrees and concludes that the election-day statutes merely require that each individual cast a vote on or before election day. See ante, at 9. But if that is all that the election-day statutes require, there is no sense in which the electorate as a whole can be seen as making its choice on election day. Rather, the electorate’s choice would be made piecemeal over an extended period prior to election day, and that prospect is blatantly contrary to what the election-day statutes demand,” he writes. “Election day is a specified date, not a span of multiple days. The election-day statutes require that federal elections occur on that date.” Alito further notes that under Mississippi’s law, allowing ballot collection to continue for five days after election day, “the ‘election’ is not held until the end of that period” in violation of federal law.

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I don't have a problem with this IF they are postmarked before election day

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I might not have a problem but I know how easy it is to get a stamp. I remember once walking into the post office and finding a certified mail receipt stamp just sitting on one of the tables for anyone to take.

So I should be able to walk in after election day and vote. No.


“If ballots received after election day are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election’s outcome, the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated,” he continues. “The acceptance of these late-arriving ballots effectively postpones the date on which the electorate’s choice is made, and federal law precludes that postponement.”

Ahhhhh.....here comes the newest conspiracy.....can't trust the postmark.

Some days I tune in just observe the stupidity. Today has been a real treat with this add on to the never ending inventory of conspiracies

Why allow for it in the law?

It’s an obvious hole and only a retard would say it wasn’t.

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KiwiFag

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Checks out.

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SCOTUS: ballots can be counted after election day

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This SCOTUS ruling requires some clarification..........The Democratic Socialist can continue to count ballots until they declare they have enough for victory.