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Election workers receive drop boxes for hand delivered mail-in ballots n North Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2024. Nevada is one of 14 states that counts mail ballots received after Election Day. (Photo by David Becker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s conservative justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the validity of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, in a case that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of voters during the upcoming midterm elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

The high court heard arguments on whether federal law overrides a Mississippi law that requires mail-in ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted as long as they arrive within five business days of the election. Fourteen states have similar laws, which extend a \u201cgrace period\u201d to ballots that arrive through the mail after polls close.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several conservative justices raised concerns with allowing ballots to arrive after Election Day, including whether voters could recall ballots once they\u2019ve shipped them but before they arrive at election offices. Justice Brett Kavanaugh questioned whether late-arriving ballots risk undermining election confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The longer after Election Day any significant changes in vote totals take place, the greater the risk that the losing side will cry the election has been stolen,\u2019\u201d Kavanaugh said, quoting from an analysis by a New York University law professor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The case comes before the Supreme Court at a moment of broader attacks against mail-in voting. Four Republican-led states eliminated their ballot arrival grace periods last year. And Congress is mulling proposals that would restrict voting by mail amid a sprawling debate in the U.S. Senate over legislation demanded by President Donald Trump that would impose sweeping new voter restrictions nationwide. That legislation, known as the SAVE Act, is unlikely to pass because of the filibuster.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Republican National Committee is challenging Mississippi\u2019s grace period law. The party contends a longstanding federal law that sets the Tuesday after the first Monday in November as Election Day for federal offices preempts state laws that allow ballots cast by Election Day, but received later, to count.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Clement, an attorney for the Republican National Committee, argued the prospect that the outcome of an election could change because of ballots arriving after Election Day would be unacceptable to losing candidates. After the 2020 election, President Donald Trump demanded election officials not count ballots that came in after Election Day. States kept counting ballots.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have an election and the election is going to turn on late-arriving ballots in a way that means what everybody kind of thought was the result on Election Day ends up being the opposite a week later, 21 days later, the losers are not going to accept that result. Full stop,\u201d Clement told the justices.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson, a Republican who is defending the state law, argues that federal law allows ballots cast by Election Day to be received later. In legal filings, attorneys for the secretary argue both legal and historical precedent support his position. States may decide that voters have made their final choices when ballots are submitted to state officials rather than when they\u2019re received, according to Watson.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday, the justices appeared divided along ideological lines, with conservative justices skeptical of the grace periods and liberal justices more sympathetic. Conservatives hold a 6-3 majority on the court.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to me that we have a very long history of states having a variety of different ballot receipt deadlines, to include after Election Day,\u201d said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the court\u2019s liberal members.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart told the court the dispute is over whether Congress in an 1845 law blocked states from counting ballots cast by Election Day but received later. \u201cNo one challenged it until now,\u201d Stewart said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It seems to me that we have a very long history of states having a variety of different ballot receipt deadlines, to include after Election Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2013 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

At least 725,000 ballots were postmarked by Election Day 2024 and arrived within a legally accepted post-election window, The New York Times <\/span>has reported<\/span><\/a>, citing election officials in 14 of 22 states and territories where late-arriving ballots were accepted that year.<\/span><\/p>\n

About 30% of voters cast a mail ballot in 2024, according to data gathered by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in October 2024 that federal law requires ballots to be received by Election Day. Trump likewise issued an executive order last year that attempted to require that mail ballots be received by the end of Election Day and to impose other election changes, but much of the order has been blocked by federal courts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A voter marks her ballot at Fondren Church in Precinct 16 during primary voting on March 10, 2026, in Jackson, Miss. (Photo by Vickie D. King\/Mississippi Today)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rick Hasen, a professor and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, <\/span>wrote<\/span><\/a> on his Election Law Blog that it was clear from Monday\u2019s arguments that the Supreme Court will be closely divided, \u201cand the case could come out either way.\u201d A decision is expected later in the spring or early summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Caleb Hays, chief policy counsel at the Center for Election Confidence, a conservative-leaning legal advocacy group that opposes ballot grace periods, said his organization was pleased that the justices appeared to pick up on the need for a clear end to the voting period. He also welcomed the justices raising the issue of recalling ballots when they are delivered through the mail or by a third-party service like FedEx.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat brings into question some of the arguments we saw from (Mississippi) on a ballot being final when it is cast and cast includes when it is deposited in a mailbox,\u201d Hays said in an interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the legal challenge made its way through the courts over the past two years, some Republican-led states moved to eliminate their grace periods. Kansas, North Dakota, Ohio and Utah last year moved to require all or nearly all ballots to be in the hands of election officials on Election Day to count.<\/span><\/p>\n

The states that continue to extend grace periods for ballots arriving after Election Day are Alaska, California, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some local election officials have urged the Supreme Court to uphold ballot grace periods. A decision that strikes down state laws\u2019 grace periods would increase the administrative burdens on many election officials, said a collection of election officials and local governments in California, Massachusetts and Washington in an amicus brief.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c(Grace periods) enable administrators in large and small jurisdictions to do their essential work in a timely and reasonable manner,\u201d the brief says.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the Supreme Court requires that ballots must arrive on or before Election Day, Clement suggested election officials would have enough time to prepare ahead of November. He said such a decision wouldn\u2019t violate the Purcell principle, a Supreme Court doctrine holding that major changes to election policy and practice shouldn\u2019t be made just before an election because voters could get confused.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The federal law at issue pertains to general elections, not primary elections, he noted \u2014 meaning the court\u2019s decision would apply only to the November election.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s plenty of time,\u201d Clement said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stateline reporter <\/span><\/i>Jonathan Shorman <\/span><\/i>can be reached at <\/span><\/i>jshorman@stateline.org<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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This story was originally produced by Stateline<\/a>, which is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network which includes Missouri Independent, and is supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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