The Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day. The Wall Street Journal reported:
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that count mailed ballots if they are postmarked by Election Day but arrive a few days afterward. In a 5-4 decision, the high court ruled against the Republican Party, which argued that ballots must be in the possession of election officials by Election Day. No state allows the counting of ballots that are postmarked after Election Day. But laws in 14 states—a mix of red and blue jurisdictions—allow a general grace period for mailed ballots to arrive if voters drop them in the mail by Election Day. About a dozen other states have a similar grace period that applies only to military and overseas voters.... The case at the Supreme Court arose from a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee, which challenged Mississippi’s grace period of five business days. The RNC argued that the grace period there and in other states violated a law that establishes Election Day for federal offices as the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Article
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Private Bills (Credit Cards, Utilities, Mortgages): For private companies and creditors, payment is generally considered "on time" only when it is physically received and processed by their due date, not just postmarked.
State Agency Payments: By law in Mississippi, payments, reports, or tax returns mailed to state agencies, counties, or municipalities are considered timely if postmarked by the U.S. Post Office on or before the due date.
Those have nothing to do with voting or the constitution. Keep trying to disenfranchise people and it’s going to come back and bite you.
We will never have an honest election as long as mail in votes are allowed.
Keep on parroting your completely unfounded allegations. While you are at it, please provide evidence, not hearsay, supporting your allegations. You can't.
@11:51, provide evidence, not hearsay, that mail-in ballots are 100% secure. You can't.
80% of the postal workers are union members.which is an arm of the democratic party. Mail in ballots are easy to corrupt.
11:02 who would be disenfranchised? Is someone who walks up to a polling place at 9:00 PM and finds the doors locked disenfranchised?
@1151 am - Unfounded? Psssttt. Only to person unintelligent enough to still believe the evening news, which is where you're regurgitating your "belief" from. Even Jimmy Carter states, “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” In 2005, former President Jimmy Carter and former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, co-chaired the Commission on Federal Election Reform, which produced a report on the U.S. electoral process and recommendations on maxim
Mr Archie proved, like him or not, that it is quite easy around here to rig just about anything.
Donald Trump votes by mail. So, yeah, since he's been doing it for years, it must be fraudulent and corrupt.
The ruling makes sense. You vote when you put your ballot in the mail. You should not be disenfranchised just because the incompetent postal service can't manage to deliver your ballot to the correct address by election day.
"The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that count mailed ballots if they are postmarked by Election Day but arrive a few days afterward."
Did the Supremes identify the meaning of "a few days afterward"? If not, this is ripe for corruption.
My son votes by mail in Oregon. His entire education was in the Deep South. Weeks before any election every registered voter gets a voting packet that includes the ballot, an information folder that includes a bio of every candidate and their positions on all issues they care to comment on, and an explanation of any ballot initiatives. It also includes a secure envelope for the marked ballot, and another envelope into which goes the sealed ballot envelope. The outer envelope is then signed and put in the mail or into a locked, secure box. Only after the signature is verified is the ballot envelope opened and counted. Oregon has ZERO voter fraud.
absentee voting and mail-in voting are not the same. stop confusing the two. or better yet, stop intentionally misleading people that there isn't a difference, when you know there is.
@ 11:51, I asked you first to provide evidence, and you declined because, as everyone knows, there is none.
Thanks for playing.
Have a nice day!
Yes. That quote is authentic, but it is often presented without the surrounding context.
In 2005, Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III co-chaired the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform. Their report stated:
“Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”
The report immediately explained why it viewed absentee voting as more vulnerable than in-person voting:
* Ballots can be sent to the wrong address or intercepted.
* Voting outside a polling place may expose voters to coercion or intimidation.
* Vote-buying is more difficult to detect with absentee ballots.
* It recommended limiting who may handle completed absentee ballots and improving security procedures.
However, it’s important to note what the commission did not conclude:
* It did not recommend eliminating absentee or mail voting.
* Instead, it recommended strengthening safeguards around absentee voting while recognizing that it was an important option for many voters.
Later in life, Carter continued to support absentee and mail voting when appropriate safeguards were in place. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he publicly endorsed expanded vote-by-mail and noted that improvements in election security had been made since 2005.
So the statement is genuine, but using that single sentence by itself can give the misleading impression that Carter opposed absentee or mail voting altogether. His commission’s position was that absentee ballots warranted stronger security measures—not that they should be abolished.
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