The Justice Department earlier this week defended Mississippi’s state law allowing officials to count mailed ballots that stretch past Election Day, reports the Washington Times.
“Counting ballots after Election Day that were mailed by Election Day fully complies with the Federal Election Day Statutes,” Kristen Clarke, an assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, told a federal appeals court Tuesday.
“States already must perform many tasks after Election Day to complete the legal process of holding an election, and state officials have accepted timely-cast ballots that arrive after Election Day at least since the Civil War. Congress’s longtime tolerance for post-Election-Day ballot receipt deadlines, and its purposes in enacting the Federal Election Day Statutes, confirm that such deadlines do not violate federal law.”
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