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The Republican National Committee (RNC) is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to dramatically restrict mail-in voting nationwide and asking the justices to rule that ballots arriving after Election Day — even if mailed on time under state law — should not be counted. If the Court sides with the RNC, millions of voters who depend […]
We’ve been warning for months that President Donald Trump and the GOP are coming hard for mail voting — and this week saw a major development in the campaign.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced this week it will consider a challenge to Mississippi’s grace period for mail ballots. A ruling to ban grace periods nationwide could upend mail voting.
In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then.
Few could miss that election eight delivered a cascade of victories for our democracy. And while national attention understandably focused on statewide races and high-profile ballot measures, smaller contests carried an outsized impact.
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.
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