ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- In Springfield, state officials are reacting to news out of Washington. Monday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that states can count ballots received after election day, as long as the ballot was postmarked before. The ruling could have major consequences for Illinois voters.
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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 that states can accept mail ballots after polls close in federal races, rejecting the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) push to defeat the practice. More than a dozen states deem mail ballots that arrive after Election Day valid, so long as they were postmar…
The Supreme Court has demolished Republicans’ efforts to delegitimize mail-in ballots, upholding a Mississippi law that allows a grace period to count ballots received after Election Day. In a 5–4 decision Monday split across ideological lines, the court ruled that ballots are valid up to five days …
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, a blow to the Trump administration and some Republican states that had urged the justices to require all ballots to arrive by the close of polls.
In a 5-4 decision, the nation's highest court disagreed with Republicans who argued Mississippi's acceptance of mail ballots after Election Day ran afoul of federal laws that set election dates.
Updated on June 29 at 2:30 p.m. Just over four months before the 2026 midterm elections, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by, and received within five days of, Election Day.
In a 5-4 decision, the court found that federal law does not prevent states from accepting late-arriving ballots. The ruling is a victory for Democrats and voting rights advocates, who had said setting a hard, Election Day deadline for ballot arrival would risk disenfranchising voters amid fears of …
The Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law Monday that allows mailed ballots to be counted if they're postmarked on or before the date of the election and received within five business days. The big picture: The justices' ruling could protect voting in states with similar laws this November and is s…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ball…
Florida Republicans criticized a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday that upheld Mississippi’s law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked and received with five days of Election Day, with some saying it gives further urgency to pass the SAVE America Act being pushed by Pr…
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Mississippi's mail-ballot grace period Monday, preserving similar election laws in states including Texas. The ruling comes months after Texas lawmakers debated eliminating the state's own post-Election Day ballot deadline.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court backed on Monday state laws that allow mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted, rejecting a Republican-led challenge to a five-day grace period in Mississippi and dealing a setback to President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump’s wide-reaching campaign to change election laws suffered another setback Monday, when the Supreme Court blocked a crucial pathway to restricting mail-in voting practices that he has long blamed, without evidence, as central to his defeat in 2020.
ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- In Springfield, state officials are reacting to news out of Washington. Monday morning, the Supreme Court ruled that states can count ballots received after election day, as long as the ballot was postmarked before. The ruling could have major consequences for Illinois voters.
It’s settled now. States can count mail-in ballots after Election Day if postmarked by that day. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s opinion for the majority in Monday’s 5-4 ruling on vote-by-mail was straightforward. In interpreting federal law, the opinion read, “The…
A closely-divided U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a critical decision on election integrity, jeopardizing the security of American elections and the sovereignty of the nation. In an opinion released […]
President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then.
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