California and other states can continue to count vote-by-mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive later, after the Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to a similar law in Mississippi.
The case, Watson v. RNC, centered on a suit brought by the Republican National Committee against grace periods for ballot arrival.
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Conservatives and Trump administration officials have argued that the practice erodes confidence in elections by slowing down the vote count and opening the door for voter fraud. But supporters of California’s law, which allows election officials to count ballots received up to a week after Election Day, celebrated the decision for protecting ballot access for hundreds of thousands of voters.
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