SCOTUS Upholds Law To Count Mail-In Ballots Arriving After Election Day

expressed through the completion and collection of ballots on election day,” Alito contended.

He pointed to 19th-century practices, Civil War-era absentee rules with strict deadlines, and legal dictionaries defining “election” to encompass both casting and receiving votes.

Citing Foster v. Love, Alito stressed that an election involves “the combined continue reading …