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Conservative justices appeared ready to strike down so-called “grace periods” for election officials to count mail-in ballots after Election Day.

Signaling a threat to millions of voters who cast mail-in ballots across the country and overseas, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared ready Monday to bless a recent push by Republicans to restrict how and when late-arriving mail-in ballots are counted.

The Republican National Committee, and Mississippi’s Republican and Libertarian parties have asked justices to unwind a Mississippi law passed in 2020 that allowed absentee voters to mail in their ballots with a postmark as late as Election Day. Under the state law, election officials were ordered to count ballots received as late as five days after Election Day. (Over 30 states currently have grace period rules for mail-in ballots that are similar.)

Paul Clement, the attorney representing the Republican National Committee, told the justices that all ballots, including mail-in ballots, must be received “into official custody” and counted by Election Day or be invalidated.

Seemingly suddenly disinterested in preserving states’ rights, Justices Neal Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly appeared to share the RNC’s sentiments about the necessity of a singular Election Day —or one without grace periods for the counting of ballots. Justice Samuel Alito appeared to put a fine point on the majority’s grievances.

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

Gorsuch pondered, too, whether voters would be able to recall their mail-in ballots if a scandal involving their candidate (like a “sexual escapade or colluding with a foreign power,” he said) broke out after Election Day.

It's so weird and fucked up that he's making this an argument against allowing postmarked ballots, which allow someone to wait until election day in case there are surprise scandals. He seems to think someone being able to recall a vote for someone who's revealed to be unfit would be bad.

But instead of this hypothetical where a scandal comes out after polls close and some small number of people are able cancel votes sent from far away, he wants people to lock in their vote well before election day so that they can't vote with the information available right up to the end like in person voters. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if the next case he'll be decrying early voting for doing just that.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 hours ago

Just a reminder to everyone here and perhaps those who had inferior schooling like myself.

It was never about "State's rights". Southern states wanted "State's rights" to own slaves but wanted federal agents to return runaway slaves who successfully made it north.

In other words:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

The Untied States are rapidly burning the fuck down. Leave before it's too late. It may already be too late.

I'm trying. It takes money I don't have right now

[–] seathru@quokk.au 1 points 1 hour ago

Hell's where I was born! Hell's where I was raised, This hell is where I'm from and this hell is where I'll stay.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes, just give it up. Americans used to like to joke about French surrender monkeys, but was about people like you--not the French resistance.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 26 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

AKA, allow the USPS to geographically invalidate votes.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 19 points 4 hours ago

It's always republicans that cry about voting and only when they lose. When they win it's all copacetic and "by a landslide" even when it's 51-49.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 hours ago

Oops, the conservative justices' "political question" doctrine is about to vanish in a puff of hypocritical smoke!

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

What I'm reading is that we should have ballot boxes in every neighborhood.

[–] Willy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

seems like everyone in this article is being disingenuous.