Supreme Court rules ballots arriving after Election Day can be counted, in win for Dems

Source: New York Post

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted up to five days after the polls close, handing Democrats a massive win heading into the midterm elections. The 5-4 ruling saw Chief Justice John Roberts and conservative Amy Coney Barrett side with their liberal peers in concluding that nothing in federal law requires all ballots to be collected by Election Day. “The Framers recognized the difficulty of crafting election laws ‘applicable to every probable change in the situation of the country,'” Barrett wrote in the majority opinion.