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Discussion Thread: US Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Case About Late-Arriving Mail-In Ballots

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C-SPAN's description in advance of the oral argument (scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Eastern) is: "The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee, the RNC's challenge to a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be received within five days of Election Day." **News and Analysis** - SCOTUSblog: [Watson v. Republican National Committee (Election Law)](https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/watson-v-republican-national-committee/) - SCOTUSblog: [Court to hear argument in case that could have significant impact on 2026 elections](https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/court-to-hear-argument-in-case-that-could-have-significant-impact-on-2026-elections/) **Live Updates** Text-based live update pages are being maintained by the following outlets: [AP](https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-mail-in-ballots), [NBC](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-congress-mullin-dhs-ice-supreme-court-mail-ballots-live-updates-rcna264632), and [Democracy Docket](https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/live-blog-supreme-court-hears-gop-case-that-could-decimate-mail-in-voting/). **Where to Watch** - C-SPAN: [Justices Hear Challenge to Mail-In Ballots Received After Election Day](https://www.c-span.org/event/public-affairs-event/justices-hear-challenge-to-mail-in-ballots-received-after-election-day/441329) - PBS NewsHour via YouTube: [Supreme Court considers late-arriving mail ballot laws in case that may affect midterms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eeddn2etBY)
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porkbellies37 Mar 23, 2026 +123
Conceptually, this is no different than people getting to the polls in time and being allowed to vote because they were in line when the polls closed. Standard procedure.  Where this becomes a voting rights shit show is when the postal service is defunded to the point where it takes weeks to deliver a ballot.  Living in a vote by mail state, I can tell you all it is the way to go. If you’re a registered voter a ballot gets mailed to you that you sign after you complete (they check your signature against the one on your license). While you are voting, you can research candidates and be mindful of each candidate’s platform and character. Get your civic duty done in your underwear and shrug off a rainy day. 
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TeutonJon78 Mar 23, 2026 +41
They already gave permission to the USPS to not postmark the day you put something in the box a few months ago. And got rid of penalties to them for not deserving stuff. They can literally just chuck mail in ballots in the corner in certain areas and then postmark after the election and it's not legally fraud.
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frogelixir Mar 23, 2026 +3
This is false. If the customer brings it to the counter, where they would get the postmark anyway, and asks for it, they get it. The snafu you reference has to do with collection mail and new transportation logistics. Mail further from a city hub may be dispatched in the morning vs. end of day, hence the automated machine postmarks. Edit source: https://about.usps.com/newsroom/statements/010226-postmarking-myths-and-facts.htm
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lolwatokay Mar 23, 2026 +13
> If the customer brings it to the counter, where they would get the postmark anyway, and asks for it, they get it. So technically possible but would completely f*** any counter service at USPS and is absolutely not the way the average person 'votes by mail'
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frogelixir Mar 23, 2026 -1
It's really not. Volume would be no heavier than tax week or Christmas. And a good number of people fill them out and return them weeks before the election. Of all of our worries USPS isn't one of them.
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PinchesTheCrab Mar 23, 2026 +7
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/1022-usps-ready-to-deliver-for-2025-holiday-season.htm >Hiring 14,000 seasonal employees: USPS has stabilized its workforce since 2020 through the conversion of nearly 232,000 precareer employees to full-time positions. This year, it plans to hire 14,000 temporary employees — down from 40,000 just a few years ago. They hire tens of thousands of employees to help with the holidays though.
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frogelixir Mar 24, 2026 +1
Those are mainly package handlers, drivers and behind the scenes people. Your clerks who take your mail over the counter are career employees, handing off that mail to a career truck driver, who hands it off to career handlers to feed into a machine for sortation. There is no grand conspiracy in the USPS. Everything was above board with moving the mail with DeJoy at the helm and little has changed since he left. He just wanted it all done by truck vs. air. At the end of the day, he kept DOGE on the outside looking in, so there's that.
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SomethingToSay11 Mar 24, 2026 +1
You can’t be serious… The same DeJoy that had sorting machines destroyed before the 2020 election?  The same DeJoy that implemented this policy? > mail carriers are no longer allowed to work overtime or make additional trips to be sure mail is delivered, and if one calls out sick, mail will simply be delayed
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PinchesTheCrab Mar 24, 2026 +1
Why even mention Christmas if it's not relevant?
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peren005 Mar 24, 2026 +1
If I bring something to a counter is that really “mailing”? lol
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readicculus5 Mar 23, 2026 +8
in IL -- now that I'm a homeowner and not moving every 1-3 years, I signed up to get mail in ballots for every election and it's awesome
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coldfarm Mar 23, 2026 +8
Just to add, this also makes interfering with mail-in ballots a worthwhile risk for bad actors. It's a felony, but that only matters IF you get caught and IF you get convicted. Because it's Federal, the POTUS can issue a pardon, and Trump has destroyed the inhibitions of future GOP executives WRT pardoning people who do crimes for them. If Paris was worth a Mass for Henri IV, surely Washington is worth some mail tampering for MAGA.
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arthurdentxxxxii Mar 24, 2026 +1
I wish we required voting like Australia does. If you don’t vote in Australia, they send you a note asking why you didn’t vote. If you have a good reason, no worries. If you don’t have a good reason, there is a minor fine (AUD $20). The US should make it not only easier to vote, but mandatory. The fact that we average around 65% is insane. It should be a required duty for every single citizen who is registered.
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Both-Reflection-1245 Mar 24, 2026 +1
Yeah. 58% of Generation Z slept thru the 2024 election and didn't bother to vote.  I would love to have seen them fined 
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porkbellies37 Mar 24, 2026 +1
I remember hearing on the radio that in Ancient Greece, a set amount of citizens were selected to vote on everything for the year. After a year, new citizens would be selected.  If you were selected to be a voter but didn’t vote, the word for you was “No Vote” or, in Greek, “I Diot”. That’s where the word “idiot” came from. 
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count023 Mar 24, 2026 +1
it should be emphasised that it's not that you dont get a fine for not voting, you get a fine for not showing up at a poling place. They dont care what you do with the ballot, you could put it in the bin unmarked, or draw dicks on it or anything, you only have to ensure you sign off that you received your constitutioanl right to vote in said election on election day.
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Actual__Wizard Mar 23, 2026 +2
Well, what the Trump administration wants the ability to do: Is pretend to allow people to vote by mail, but then suspend the postal service, so that all of mail in ballots fall outside of the window for validity, effectively nullifying them all. So, this scheme is nothing more than an illegal vote nullification scheme. Obviously it should be shot down 0-9. So, if this effort passes, then everybody has to vote in person, or they risk their vote not being counted. Because they have the authority to screw with the postal service.
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porkbellies37 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Where it becomes a very problematic issue is if you have a USPS conspiracy to not properly postmark mail only in a few key urban areas in swing states. That could flip a presidential or senatorial election. 
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Both-Reflection-1245 Mar 24, 2026 +1
I wonder how many cities will have all the polling places moved just prior to election day.  Like what happened in Arizona last week
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Actual__Wizard Mar 23, 2026 +2
Correct, they just want the legal ability to trick people into using mail in ballots, and then defunding the postal service, so all of those ballots take too long to get delivered and become invalid. Obviously they can target this effort to certain areas to "sculpt the election results any way they want." Obviously, that can not be legal and if it becomes legal, then everybody needs be aware that you can't rely on mail in voting because there's too great of a chance of your vote being discarded in an evil election manipulation scheme. Also, these people's "attempts to mess with our elections" are too flagrant and obvious. The opposite should be occurring with voting rights being supported, not dismantled.
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MrLurid Mar 23, 2026 +76
If you consider this with Republicans work to kill the USPS, it's obvious what they're doing.
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thekillercook Mar 23, 2026 +26
I mailed a 3 day priority letter to the next town over it took a week to get there!
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Total_Cardiologist22 Mar 23, 2026 +5
Priority mail is a scam you’re just paying more for regular delivery. 
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thekillercook Mar 23, 2026 +16
It’s tracking and insured that’s what I paid for because it was a legal document that needed confirmation of delivery
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thehildabeast Mar 23, 2026 +5
Another Biden failure not removing the Trump stooge in charge of the USPS
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Miserable_Archer_769 Mar 23, 2026 +12
Jfc learn the processes he couldnt do that. I believe the issue is the board that was replaced has to vote him out
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Walker_ID Mar 23, 2026 +13
That really hasn't stopped Trump.
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jakexil323 Mar 23, 2026 +2
There are some positions where you just can't fire someone because of the way the agency/position was created. Other wise trump would have fired Jerome Powell already.
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pchs26 Mar 23, 2026 +1
No it hasn't but Biden actually tried to follow the rule of law which is what we are supposed to do. I don't' blame Biden for this one...
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Vegetable-Error-2068 Mar 23, 2026 -6
You should. He didn't do what he had to do to help us avoid this. That's his failure to own.
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pchs26 Mar 23, 2026 +7
You blame Biden for following the law?? I blame him and the Democrats for a lot of things but following the rule of law is not one of them. Knowing how to be creative they do lack, but it doesn't appear there really was a creative work around without blatantly breaking the law.
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someguy7710 Mar 23, 2026 +5
I agree, WTF is Vegetable-error even talking about. Lets be bad too so we can stop them from being bad. Biden didn't fail, he followed the law like they all should. You can't blame Biden because Trump is a criminal.
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TristanIsAwesome Mar 23, 2026 +2
Apparently Biden's problem was that he... wasn't a criminal?
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someguy7710 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Apparently...
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thehildabeast Mar 23, 2026 +2
He’s incompetent and corrupt, Biden should have felt the duty to get rid of him not hid behind processes.
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Vegetable-Error-2068 Mar 23, 2026 +2
"JFC, obey the rules" Telling people to obey the rules is so tone-deaf and oblivious given everything that's going on.
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MarvinFarquhar Mar 23, 2026 +32
Let's phrase this situation MAGA style... States Rights on the chopping block as RNC pulls the plug on popular Mississippi ballot law.
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Raspberries-Are-Evil Mar 23, 2026 +17
So they're going to rule you can't count ballots received after election day even if they are post marked. The f****** irony of this is that his will hurt Republican and rural voters the most. These people are arguing this case not because there is some problem, but because Donald Trump is butt hurt he lost 2020, still can't get over it and thinks that just because he "had the lead" and then "lost it" as votes were counted, that somehow this is a problem.
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pchs26 Mar 23, 2026 +7
No they are arguing the case as another chip away to infiltrate our elections so that they become more and more moved to being performative in nature.
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ShirtPitiful8872 Mar 23, 2026 +6
I’m convinced that he may have inadvertently caused his loss by attacking mail in in 2020. He probably thought that he could somehow get them thrown out but didn’t realize that is controlled legally at the state by state level. How many older people couldn’t make it to the polls due to COVID that would have voted in person? Or how many didn’t bother to request a mail in ballot?
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Competitive-Ad-9404 Mar 23, 2026 +5
Is there any evidence of this that this will hurt Republicans worse?
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Raspberries-Are-Evil Mar 23, 2026 +6
Tons. Republicans traditionally do more mail in voting because many of them live in rural places. Before Trump, Republicans spent a lot of time and money getting people to vote by mail. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-19/abolishing-voting-by-mail-will-hurt-republicans-more-than-help
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SomethingToSay11 Mar 24, 2026 +1
They will selectively choose which ballots it applies to and tie the issue up in the courts if anyone tries to challenge it. It’s not just for Trump’s ego. Republicans have been at this for decades, Trump is just the vehicle to get there. And he will be the scapegoat if there is ever any accountability 
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Sure_Plankton_2766 Mar 23, 2026 +16
Their interpretation of Foster V Love is insane. That ruling was due to the fact that one state having an election early could influence another states voters. Okay, we can agree there. But this is about votes that are nu-influencable (is that a word?) since they would be post marked and already cast.
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AWall925 Mar 23, 2026 +12
Something interesting I noticed is that this is the same lawyer who got Roe overturned.
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Compliant_Serf Mar 23, 2026 +4
Marc Elias is on Brian Tyler cohen a bunch on YT
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dispelthemyth Mar 23, 2026 +12
If this is allowed then surely all deployed military votes aren’t allowed as either they voted early and posted to get there by election day or they voted on election day and they arrive late.
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Lore-Warden Mar 23, 2026 +14
It's worse than that. It means whoever's in charge of the post office gets to decide which ballots get counted.
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pchs26 Mar 23, 2026 +12
Between this and the SAVE Act push going on it is clear the fix is trying to be pushed hard...tell me again how the SCOTUS must rule on all matters of law IAW the law..
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ZestycloseCelery9786 Mar 23, 2026 +3
Yes, if Trump can’t get the “Save America Act” passed in Congress, he will seek the help of the six conservative Supreme Court justices (through bribery). He knows how disastrous his second term has been—he’s messed everything up—so now he has to resort to every possible form of cheating before the midterm elections.
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pchs26 Mar 23, 2026 +2
Bribery or just the fix that is already in and their dystopian view of further control somehow. I can't tell you how many times I have been lectured that this won't happen on this board with elements of the law as though the rules aren't changing in how they are enforced.
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CommitteeOfOne Mar 23, 2026 +24
To clarify a little, this is over absentee ballots received after election day. Mississippi does not have vote-by-mail, although I know many residents use it that way. And the irony is the law allowing this was written by the Republican (then-) supermajority Mississippi legislature.
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Ferelwing Mar 23, 2026 +22
Americans overseas do not vote at embassies or on military bases. The way the laws are written, people who are on military bases abroad or are Americans residing abroad, they are only allowed to send their vote to the state they last resided in which means that if the state sent their ballot late or has slow service US military and Americans who reside overseas will now have their votes ignored. There are 160k military US Military personnel stationed abroad not including those stationed in combat locations. This does not include their families. So effectively this legislation would absolutely remove their right to vote in US elections.
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NeedAVeganDinner Mar 23, 2026 +19
When I was in, we always joked that they don't count military absentee ballots unless it's really close. Now they're just trying to completely disenfranchise us.   No, you can't vote, now begone to Iran and die for my right to vote.
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Ferelwing Mar 23, 2026 +5
That's what it looks like on the outside too. I know Americans who are residing abroad, it's shocking that every other country can vote at their embassy but the US doesn't have a way to do that because everything involves their states. The weirdest part is that it's really easy to look this information up and Americans in the USA do not seem to understand it or even consider it. Edited to add: It really feels like those in charge don't want the people who they are sending to possibly die, to be able to vote to stop that outcome.
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ObliviousKangaroo Mar 23, 2026 +4
I could track my ballot status online. Last time I voted from overseas they counted it in January.
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ThaddeusJP Mar 23, 2026 +23
Founding fathers didn't maniac proof the constitution. First maniac comes along and guts it in just over a year. Then again they only thought white landowning men should vote and probably didn't think that they would vote against their own interests.
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masnosreme Mar 23, 2026 +30
The founding fathers didn't expect the Constitution to last this long. It was their assumption that as time went on the Constitution would be regularly amended, rewritten, or replaced entirely. They didn't think it would become regarded as some sort of pseudo-religious scripture.
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PrometheusLiberatus Mar 23, 2026 +14
Too bad so much of our country just happens to be obsessed with blindly following religious scripture...
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w4rma Mar 23, 2026 +4
More accurately: Too bad so much of our country just happens to be obsessed with blindly following authoritarians' interpretation of religious scripture...
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MadRaymer Mar 23, 2026 +16
Obviously the founders were far from perfect for numerous reasons, but their biggest failure in the design of the US government was guessing where the power struggle would exist. They believed the struggle for power would be *between* the branches of government, so the checks and balances were constructed with that in mind. They didn't envision the power struggle between political parties reaching the point where one party would capture all three branches and be complicit in the abuse of power of each one. How is the judicial branch going to check the executive branch when 30% of the justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by the current executive?
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IntelligentDepth8206 Mar 23, 2026 +5
This is the most important point that never gets brought up. But it's even worse. The founders theorized a power struggle between branches based on Madison's translation error from ancient Roman texts. There were no translation apps back, errors were common. Madison wrongly interpreted Roman democracy as a competition between actors in a government when the actual text read democracy as a competition between the rich and the poor. The US should have a senate of plebians not the current aristocratic puppet show.
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Icy_Information_6563 Mar 23, 2026 +2
>probably didn't think that they would vote against their own interests. That's it. We've had 10+ years of MAGA and there are still way too many people supporting him. We can talk about rigged elections all day long, but we do know that people still watch Fox News, Newsmax, etc.
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wrldruler21 Mar 23, 2026 +3
They kinda did with the 2nd Amendment. That's the "when all else fails" option.
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ThaddeusJP Mar 23, 2026 +3
Not to get into a 2a debate but they probably also didnt consider the development of weapons that can fire 900 rounds a minute OR the government having them in addition to the citizenry, but they also have f35s and M242 Bushmasters on APCs.
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Pete41608 Mar 23, 2026 +3
Or nuclear
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SwimmingThroughHoney Mar 24, 2026 +1
Sure they did. What they didn't expect was for the people to be fully on-board with it. The Constitution ultimately grants the final check on power to the people. It's why the federal constitution can be amended entirely without any federal involvement (through the states themselves). But they just didn't think that the people would ever become convinced to act against their own interests.
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hairymoot Mar 23, 2026 +18
Republicans don't want to make it easy to vote, because they don't want you voting. The more citizens that vote, Republicans lose.
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wellwisherelf Mar 24, 2026 +1
didn't trump win the popular vote?
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bigfatgeekboy Mar 23, 2026 +9
So all a MAGA-leaning postal carrier has to do is 'accidentally' delay delivery until after Election Day, and those votes don't count.
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DemocracyDocket Mar 23, 2026 +8
Justice Kagan brings up the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, a law that was passed to prevent another January 6 by eliminating the ambiguities about how much discretion Congress has to count, or not count, the electoral votes received by the states. The law refers to a “period of voting” and allows states in dramatic circumstances to extend voting. Doesn’t that imply that Congress never meant to say “Election Day means election day?”  No, Clement responds. That only refers to early voting, which he is fine with.  Follow along at Democracy Docket: [https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/live-blog-supreme-court-hears-gop-case-that-could-decimate-mail-in-voting/](https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/live-blog-supreme-court-hears-gop-case-that-could-decimate-mail-in-voting/)
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FormerUsenetUser Mar 23, 2026 +9
Aren't the states supposed to make their own rules?
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Natoochtoniket Mar 23, 2026 +8
To be fair, the voter has "cast" his/her ballot when the voter delivers that ballot to any agent of the government. The right to vote (in the Constitution) does not have conditions about how the ballot is cast. Every ballot that is lawfully cast must be counted. The work to undermine the Post Office, specifically to delay ballots from arriving, should not matter. Every ballot that is cast must be counted. Duration of custody by an agent of the government (USPS), should not matter.
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church-rosser Mar 24, 2026 +1
stop making sense
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DemocracyDocket Mar 23, 2026 +7
The justices are done with Mississippi, and we’re moving on to the three attorneys arguing to strike down the grace period law. First up: former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement for the Libertarian Party of Mississippi. He’s splitting the argument with attorneys for the RNC and the U.S. solicitor general’s office. 
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DoTheFooka-Fooka Mar 23, 2026 +2
> I don't understand how someone lives like this. Because their paycheck relies on it.
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Helpful-Toe5101 Mar 23, 2026 +5
I use a mail ballot because it gives me time to research some of the more obscure items that apprar on ballots before making my mark. Then, I carry it to the drop box at the local elections office because I don't trust USPS to deliver it on time.
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mbene913 Mar 23, 2026 +10
Like every attempt Republicans make to destroy free and fair elections, this terrifies me. Deciding against this would give the USPS too much power. Soon ballots from DEM counties will just get very late processing and then swing states go to the traitors
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DemocracyDocket Mar 23, 2026 +11
Democracy Docket is also live-blogging the argument — our legal experts, reporters, and founder Marc Elias are covering it in real time right now on our website. Follow along for expert insights: [https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/live-blog-supreme-court-hears-gop-case-that-could-decimate-mail-in-voting/](https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/live-blog-supreme-court-hears-gop-case-that-could-decimate-mail-in-voting/)
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SpaceElevatorMusic Mar 23, 2026 +4
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ThaneduFife Mar 23, 2026 +6
I'm getting an unclose-able popup asking for my email just to read your liveblog. No thanks.
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IntelligentDepth8206 Mar 23, 2026 +1
Great stuff lately, hope you gain more notoriety
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boner79 Mar 23, 2026 +7
Postmarked date is the date. What's so difficult to understand? Reminds me of the good ole days in the 90s when SAT and college applications just have to be postmarked by the date to be considered on time.
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SomethingToSay11 Mar 24, 2026 +1
Because the delivery of the ballot can be intentionally delayed to disenfranchise voters. SCOTUS recently ruled you can’t sue the USPS for not delivering your mail as well. It’s pretty easy to see 2+2=4 unless you’re being obtuse. 
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boner79 Mar 24, 2026 +1
That’s why I’m saying arrival time shouldn’t matter as long as it was postmarked on time. Obviously there needs to be a time limit but should be something long like 2 weeks.
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Fall3n7s Mar 23, 2026 +3
Oh goodie. I can only imagine how this will go.
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RiseDelicious3556 Mar 23, 2026 +3
My telephone psychic, Miss Cloe tells me the decision will be 6-3 with conservative justices in the majority. Can't have late ballots, otherwise, what would be the point of Trump acting to delay the mail so that they can't be counted???
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spotmuffin9986 Mar 23, 2026 +3
Mark Elias is on MSNBC right now and he is angry.
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Aggravating_Rise_179 Mar 24, 2026 +1
These people are so f****** desperate to try and claim they have the will of the people by mitigating the democratic process its hilarious... they know they are on their last legs because of how unpopular their agenda actually is 
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pchs26 Mar 24, 2026 +1
I just read another pundit who said they think Roberts and Barrett will vote against the admin and to preserve mail voting? Is that a valid assessment or is someone sniffing too much copium?
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Both-Reflection-1245 Mar 24, 2026 +1
But all those billions the postal employees put into their retirement and medical funding might not go to UPS or FedEx if SCOTUS rules for it.  Then P. 2025 would be up the river.  Scotus is just as crooked as the rest of the bunch. So we all know they will rule against it while the Postmaster General holds onto the votes until after the election.  
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andyraf Mar 24, 2026 +1
The penalties for illegal voting are severe. But there is no penalty for denying an otherwise legal voter the opportunity to cast their ballot; not to mention that the shenanigans that some politicians are attempting would deny tens of thousands the opportunity to vote. Even though the net impact of a single illegal vote and denying a single legal vote are effectively the same. When an election is held, an investigation should be conducted into the number of legal voters who were not able to vote due to changes promulgated by politicians. And for each individual identified, those politicians should be criminally charged, with the same penalties as illegal voting. Perhaps that would change the tone of the conversation.
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Nerd-19958 Mar 24, 2026 +1
According to The Hill, the Court's conservative majority appears likely to agree with the ruling of the right-wing 5th Circuit Court of Appeals disallowing counting ballots after Election Day. According to the linked article "More than a dozen states have laws similar to Mississippi that allow for the counting of late-arriving ballots." This looks like venue shopping to me; choosing to appeal a Mississippi federal court decision so that the 5th Circuit would rule in the Trumpublicans' favor. [Supreme Court sounds ready to limit counts of late-arriving ballots](https://rollcall.com/2026/03/23/supreme-court-sounds-ready-to-limit-counts-of-late-arriving-ballots/)
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SwimmingThroughHoney Mar 24, 2026 +1
For anyone looking for more on the arguments: It sounds like Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch favored the government's position (that ballots must be received by election day). Kavanaugh didn't come across quite as strongly, but did seem to agree with some of the "concerns" and mentioned "preventing fraud" (while apparently ignoring that no evidence of such fraud has been presented). He did raise Purcell concerns, but I can't imagine he really caring about that when it comes down to it. Roberts and Barrett seemed skeptical of both sides, but seemed to lean slightly in favor of allowing the ballots. And obviously the three liberal justices were firmly on the side of allowing them. Wouldn't be surprised if this is 5-4 in favor of the government.
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jokemon Mar 23, 2026 -2
Why can I not just vote online? Wouldn't that be really easy to accomplish??!?!?!?!?
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drunkcowofdeath Mar 23, 2026 +8
No it would absolutely not. It would be impossible to secure and make it much easier for hackers to submit fake ballots
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RealGianath Mar 23, 2026 +3
Maybe in the next version of our government if there is one. The current one is corrupted by a bunch of techbro billionaires who are hellbent on owning us all.
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brunebarol1 Mar 23, 2026 -8
Mail in ballots are typically sent 3-4 weeks before election day. There's no excuse to waiting until the last day to postmark your ballot.
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ineyeseekay Mar 24, 2026 +1
Well, but the Post Office can't be held responsible for mail delivered late, or not at all, according to a recent SC ruling. That sets the stage for this. And if you're on board with this but can't put the pieces together, someone can simply take the ballots and throw them away for them to never be counted and there's nothing you can do about it. Or, maybe less controversial to the people who love Trump and election fuckery, they can simply delay deliver by however much and voila, no mail in votes for blue states.   This is a f****** problem and had f*** all to do with people mailing in their ballots. 
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