The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 in favor of Mississippi -vs- RNC that state legislature can decide how long after election day that qualified election ballots cast may be received. [PDF HERE] Essentially, federal election day is election day, but ballots can be received after election day for the length of time determined by state law.
Justice Barrett delivered the majority opinion, joined by Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson.
Justice Alito dissented along with Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
The Hight Court outlined that congress could change the ability of the states by changing the statutory language of the federal election law to require ballots be received by election day. As long as federal law does not outline the deadline for ballot reception, states can extend that process at their legislative discretion. THIS IS A HOT MESS FUBAR!
“The federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days thereafter; nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by election day.”
As noted by Samuel Alito in his well-written dissent, even during the U.S. civil war, soldier ballots had to be counted on “election day“, not days and weeks after.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney-Barrett have once again betrayed the foundational principle within constitutional language. It is infuriating.
If the ballots are bar coded, this will eliminate the shenanigans. They can trace every one and mark each one going to a parking lot etc as undeliverable.
Congress 100% controls the lower court and legislative agenda.
Steering the ship of state directly into the iceberg.
In case you haven’t noticed the Supreme Court only gives us the decisions that either don’t really matter or the Leftists can easily side-step and work around. The critical decisions like Cook, mail in ballots and birthright citizenship always go to the Leftists with the President Trump appointees rotating the vote against him!
A Very Important Point on Mail-in-Ballots.
Every election day the US Postal Inspection Service dispatches Postal Inspectors to every Post Office in the United States to inspect and VERIFY that all of the ballot envelopes in the custody of the Post Office (meaning post marked) are out for delivery by COB that day.
What this means is there shouldn’t be mailed ballots being delivered to Democrat run election’s offices for days and weeks after the election yet it happens every year in California, Arizona, Virginia and other corrupt states!
Defining what Election Day is seems to be as difficult for Supreme Court justices as defining what a woman is.