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CAN, not MUST.
This means sane states will count them, Nazi states will throw them in the garbage.
Handle your business accordingly.
States run their own elections, as has always been the case, and as it should always be. They also must be postmarked by election day.
So why was there a Supreme Court ruling on this if the fed has nothing to do with states elections?
If today the Supreme Court had alternately said states must NOT accept ballots postmarked by election day but received later, that would have affected the way states handle their elections, right? Or am I missing something?
You aren't missing anything. Republicans sued and lost, then appealed their obvious loss up through the courts until it hit the SC. The SC ruled that the Constitution is clear that states run their elections. If they had ruled the other way, the chaos would have been... interesting.
Because that's how the court system works. Somebody (in this case the RNC) sued and it was appealed up to higher court levels. Because this is a Constitutional issue as election management is explicitly given to the states in the Constitution, SCOTUS took it up and made a ruling.
And yes if they had ruled the other way it would have affected elections, although it would have affected all states equally. At the end of the day the deadline is arbitrary anyway, we just have to pick what it is.
The obvious ruling would have been to deny the case in the first place...
Thank you and appreciate you clarifying
The case exists because Trump tried pushing a blatantly unconstitutional rule through.
States' rights, baby.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2026
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