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Mississippi’s Republican secretary of state is asking the Supreme Court to rule against a coalition of GOP groups and reinstate a five-day post-election grace period for late mail-in ballots struck down by a federal appeals court.
The RNC is asking the Supreme Court to reject Mississippi’s request to review a court decision that struck down the state’s post–Election Day grace period.
Should SCOTUS rule against Mississippi’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline, it could potentially disenfranchise millions of voters.
President Donald Trump and the GOP have launched a new offensive in their long-running war on voting.
Mississippi’s secretary of state asked SCOTUS to weigh in on the state’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions, which the state enshrined in its 1890 constitution with the express purpose of denying Black men the right to vote.
A group of Mississippians are asking the nation’s highest court to determine whether the state’s lifetime voting ban violates the U.S. Constitution.
Pro-voter organizations have asked the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision that invalidated a Mississippi law allowing election officials to count timely postmarked mail-in ballots for up to five business days after an election.
The RNC urged Texas election officials to halt a plan to count ballots received after Election Day, citing a 5th Circuit decision.
A panel of Trump-appointed judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) request to invalidate a Mississippi election law that allows for the counting of timely postmarked mail-in ballots for up to five days after an election.
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