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Breaking: The Supreme Court seems skeptical of laws in 14 states that allow counting of mail ballots that arrive after Election Day
: The Supreme Court appears poised to STRIKE DOWN allowing mail-in ballots to be received days or weeks after election day
Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon NAILS IT: “We argued in our brief that because Congress has these laws that refer to an election DAY, election day should mean election DAY, meaning the last day by which ballots can be received by the state and processed.”
“And so here, Mississippi allows it for five days, some states allow it for 10 days, up to 21 days, eight states don’t even require a postmark on mail ballots.”
“I think that’s actually going to be a positive development for voter confidence in the outcome of our elections, regardless of your party, because we’re going to know that final means final, and there aren’t some shenanigans with a bunch of people, your neighbor or whoever, delivering a dump of ballots into the mail after the election day.”
We need this for the republic! One ELECTION DAY.
Justice Sam Alito delivered a MASTERCLASS in precisely why we have an election DAY, not “week” or “month”
“We have LOTS of phrases that involve two words, the last of which, the second of which is DAY. Labor DAY, Memorial DAY, George Washington’s birthDAY, Independence DAY, birth DAY, and election DAY!”
“And they’re all particular DAYS.”
“So if we start with that, if I have nothing more to look at than the phrase election day, I think this is the DAY in which everything is going to take place,