Legal Decisions on Ballot Counting Deadlines Draw Differences Between States
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Supreme Court rejects second GOP effort to cut absentee ballot deadline in N.C.
The Supreme Court, for the second time in two days, rejected a GOP request to shorten the deadline mail-in ballots must be received by North Carolina officials to be counted.
The state of play: The state's deadline had been extended from 3 days to 9 days post-Election Day.
The big picture: These are the latest in a series of decisions over ballot deadlines in states across the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The rulings come shortly after the court rejected an effort by Wisconsin Democrats and civil rights groups to...
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Supreme Court Allows Longer Deadlines for Absentee Ballots in Pennsylvania and North Carolina WASHINGTON — In a pair of decisions welcomed by Democrats, the Supreme Court on Wednesday let election officials in two key battleground states, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, accept absentee ballots for several days after Election Day.
In the Pennsylvania case, the court refused a plea from Republicans in the state that it decide before Election Day whether election officials can continue receiving absentee ballots for three days after Nov. 3.
In the North Carolina case, the court let stand lower court rulings that allowed the state’s board of elections to...
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Appeals Court Strikes Down Minnesota Dems’ Mail-In Scheme
A federal appeals court blocked Minnesota Democrats from extending the state’s mail-in ballot deadline past Election Day, handing state Republicans a major legal victory.
In a 2-1 ruling, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that mail-in ballots in Minnesota must be received by Nov. 3 in order to be counted. The court ruled that Minnesota secretary of state Steve Simon violated the Constitution when he attempted to extend "the deadline for receipt of ballots without legislative authorization."
Minnesota Republicans filed the lawsuit in September to challenge Simon’s proposal, which...
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