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In a surprise<\/span> victory for voting rights, the Supreme Court on Monday a\u00a0Mississippi law\u00a0allowing mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after Election Day, as long as they had been postmarked by the day of the election.<\/p>

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The 5-4 decision by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, which was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court\u2019s three liberal justices, averts a major election disaster that would have injected chaos into the midterms. Fourteen states have mail-in ballot\u00a0grace periods\u00a0on the books, and 30 states accept ballots from overseas and military voters sent before or on Election Day but only received after. The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0found\u00a0that during the 2024 election \u201cat least 725,000 ballots were postmarked by Election Day and arrived within the legally accepted post-election window.\u201d Changing mail-in ballot deadlines months before the general election could have disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of voters who could have been unaware of the stricter rules, or have their ballots thrown out because of postal delays, or because they live in remote,\u00a0rural locations in states like Alaska.<\/p>\n

Overruling the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett affirmed that such laws are constitutional. \u201cIn sum, the election-day statutes require the electorate\u2019s choice to be made on election day,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThat occurs so long as election day is the deadline for individuals to vote\u2014as it is in Mississippi. But the election-day statutes do not set a deadline for ballot receipt, so they do not prevent Mississippi from counting ballots postmarked before election day yet received afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Samuel Alito dissented, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. \u201cThe acceptance of these late-arriving ballots effectively postpones the date on which the electorate\u2019s choice is made, and federal law precludes that postponement,\u201d Alito claimed, even though late-arriving ballots do nothing to change a voter\u2019s choice on Election Day, since ballots are still required to be submitted by then.<\/p>\n

President Trump has long spread conspiracies about mail voting and most recently attacked California\u2019s protractedvote count as a \u201crigged election.\u201d The administration\u2019s latest plan to undercut mail voting would require states to hand over their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security for the Postal Service to deliver mail-in ballots\u2014a form of extortion that has generated furious pushback from election officials. The head of the Postal Service\u00a0told the Senate they were following Trump\u2019s directive, claiming that he wanted to ensure \u201cthe right ballots are going to the right people.\u201d (A federal judge last week blocked key parts of a Trump executive order that authorized such a scheme.)<\/p>

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Alito\u2019s dissent amplifies Trump\u2019s conspiracies. \u201cToday\u2019s decision leaves open opportunities for voter fraud that may further undermine Americans\u2019 faith in the integrity of this country\u2019s elections,\u201d he wrote. \u201cDiverse sources have recognized that mail-in ballots increase the potential for fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, every major study has shown that mail-in voting is safe and secure, but the fact that four justices signed on to Trump\u2019s crusade to get rid of mail-in ballots is highly disturbing and could embolden the president to attempt to take even more drastic steps to make it harder to vote.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s ruling should also not distract from the damage the Roberts Court has already done to voting rights. Its decision in late April,<\/strong> effectively destroying the Voting Rights Act,<\/strong> gave Republicans just enough time to dismantle majority-Black seats held by Democrats in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Alabama. That was followed by a series of orders by the Republican-appointed justices on the shadow docket that expedited the GOP\u2019s efforts to erase Black representation and give their party additional seats before the midterms.<\/p>

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