The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over what the phrase “Election Day” means and whether states can accept ballots in federal elections that arrive after that date.
Republicans challenged a Mississippi state law, passed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, that allows officials to count ballots that arrive up to five days after the federal Election Day if they are postmarked by Election Day.
The state has asked the justices to overturn a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruling that invalidated the state law, deciding it conflicts with a federal law that sets Election Day as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
