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Supreme Court will decide whether states can count late-arriving mail ballots, a Trump target (apnews.com)

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The justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel of three judges nominated by the Republican president on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the state law allowing ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day to be counted violated federal law.

Mississippi is among 18 states and the District of Columbia that accept mailed ballots received after Election Day as long as the ballots are postmarked on or before that date, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The list includes swing states such as Nevada and states such as Colorado, Oregon and Utah that rely heavily on mail voting.

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Without actually funding the USPS, this will effectively kill mail-in voting. You could send your ballot in a month in advance, and it might not get counted because USPS can't be bothered to get it in until the week after Nov 5th.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

Even if you fund it, someone could do something like a physical DDoS on an opposing stronghold by just sending all overwhelming number of letters leading up to election day. Delivery time is somewhat elastic, and delays can be politically targeted.