Supreme Court takes up Trump-backed challenge to late mail-in ballots
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Republicans are challenging grace periods for late mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day. President Trump wants to abolish mail-in voting.
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court will weigh the Republican Party’s effort to limit mail-in voting when it hears a case March 23 with broad implications for the upcoming midterms that addresses whether absentee ballots must be received – and not just postmarked – by Election Day.
Voting by mail has decreased since its peak during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet nearly 30% of voters still cast ballots by mail in the 2024 elections, and many states have grace periods for mailed ballots.
President Donald Trump has long railed against mail-in voting, saying it is vulnerable to fraud and baselessly claiming it cost him the 2020 election.
“ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS,” he wrote on Truth Social in August.
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