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href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/supreme-court-rules-legal-mail-in-ballots-after-election-day\/\"> <span>Election Security<\/span> <\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The ruling is a victory for election advocates who say the evidence overwhelmingly shows that voter fraud is rare and not tied to mail voting in general. <\/p>\n<p>  <br \/>\n<audio id=\"audio-player\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-tts-cdn.api.scpnewsgrp.com\/cyberscoop\/89606\/english.openai.mp3\"><\/audio> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"11\">\n<div>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p>0:00<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p> <span id=\"tts-tooltip\">Learn more.<\/span> <span> This feature uses an automated voice, which may result in occasional errors in pronunciation, tone, or sentiment. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"single-article__cover-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"single-article__cover\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" 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https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-5.jpg?resize=1265,843 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\"><figcaption> Norwalk, CA – June 01: A person places their Mail in ballot into a ballot box during early voting outside of the LA County Registrar-Recorder building on Monday, June 1, 2026 in Norwalk, CA. (Ronaldo Bola\u00f1os \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"75.419186210794\"><body readability=\"152.48271092669\"><\/p>\n<p>In a 5-4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/25pdf\/24-1260_g3cn.pdf\">decision<\/a>, the Supreme Court upheld the right of states to accept mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day, but can arrive up to five days later through the mail system.<\/p>\n<p>The case stems from a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee against Mississippi and its Secretary of State, arguing they could not legally count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, even if they are postmarked on or before that same day. The RNC argued that federal law defines \u201celections\u201d and \u201cElection Day\u201d as the casting and receiving of ballots by that day.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected that argument, stating that \u201cnothing in the federal Election-Day statutes require ballots to be received by election day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal Election-Day statutes do not preempt Mississippi\u2019s law because the defining element of an \u2018election\u2019 has always been the electorate\u2019s choice of candidate,\u201d wrote Barrett.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Barrett, joined by Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Jackson Brown, noted that other federal voting statutes like the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act explicitly say that state law governs when ballots must be received, not the federal government. <\/p>\n<p>Further, while Congress inserted the phrase \u201cElection Day\u201d and specifies it as a Tuesday in its most recent update, it also allows states to modify that period of voting in response to certain force majeure events, like the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>While the Constitution requires voting to take place by a certain time, the review of those legally cast votes does not need to conclude at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Constitution requires the \u2018Day on which [the electors] shall give their Votes\u2019 to be \u2018the same throughout the United States,\u2019 but says nothing about the day for receipt,\u201d wrote Barrett. \u201cThe Constitution thus envisions a system in which receipt of votes is necessarily divorced from voting. And it sets the crucial, uniform day as the day of voting while leaving receipt to happen later. The federal Election-Day statutes follow the same pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the ruling upholds the principle that \u201cthe election is completed for the voter at the moment they complete their ballot, not the moment that some administrative election official receives that ballot or reviews that ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It also validates more than a hundred years of <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/judge-strikes-down-trump-election-executive-order\/\">state autonomy<\/a> in setting their own rules regarding the receipt of election ballots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case was about who gets to make that determination,\u201d said Becker. \u201cAnd as the founders intended, as is clearly laid out in the elections clause of the Constitution, the states get to make that determination about when those ballots should be delivered by the postal service and be counted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Becker bemoaned the slow, steady politicization of the issue, and said in conversations many election officials were anxious about the case and relieved to see a victory, albeit a narrow one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you, in any other era this case should have been a 9-0 [decision],\u201d said Becker. \u201cThis is a slam dunk, the states clearly have the authority to do this, they\u2019ve been doing this for decades and decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling likely forecloses major changes to the way states receive or accept mail-in ballots before the midterm elections, but Becker does expect some states to seek legislative changes to align their state laws with the five-day post-election timeline blessed by the court.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>14 states and Washington D.C. have state laws that allow any ballot to be received up to five days after Election Day or longer, while more than 30 allow military and overseas ballots to arrive after Election Day. Election experts have said ruling that such ballots were invalid could have upended decades of voting precedent and procedures for American voters at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McNulty, director of Issue One Policy, a nonprofit focused on money in politics and elections, said had the court ruled the other way, it would have created chaos for election administration in more than a dozen states that accept such ballots, forcing them to move ballot receipt deadlines, redesign procedures and conduct large scale voter education campaigns without any additional funding.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court \u201crightly rejected an attempt to reinterpret federal law to force sweeping last-minute changes to election systems across the country and discard legally cast ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pamela Smith, CEO of Verified Voting, a nonprofit focused on promoting secure election technologies, said the ruling should give relief to voters who rely on mail or absentee voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ruling ensures that a postal delay outside of any voter\u2019s control does not erase a lawfully cast ballot and supports election officials\u2019 ability to capture the will of voters,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Post-election audits and investigations have consistently shown voter fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare, and that mail-in ballots are not any more susceptible to fraud than other forms of voting.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, states accepting mail-in ballots past Election Day has been a politically charged subject since the 2020 election, when then-incumbent President Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden in part on the strength of late-arriving mail ballots that heavily swung in Biden\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<p>In the years since, both Trump and the GOP more broadly have cast late arriving mail ballots as inherently suspicious, untrustworthy and opaque.<\/p>\n<p>Those beliefs have persisted.<\/p>\n<p>In their dissent, Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the decision \u201cleaves open opportunities for voter fraud that may further undermine Americans\u2019 faith in the integrity of this country\u2019s elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMail voting also presents a greater opportunity for voter manipulation, a more vulnerable chain of ballot custody, and a diminished ability to detect improprieties in real time,\u201d Alito wrote on behalf of the minority. \u201cToday\u2019s decision compounds these vulnerabilities. Allowing absentee ballots to pour in over the days and weeks after election day, by which point preliminary election returns are being publicly reported, creates greater opportunity for fraud and risks further undermining the public\u2019s confidence in election integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.4526315789474\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. Johnson\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Derek B. Johnson<\/h4>\n<p> Derek B. Johnson is a reporter at CyberScoop, where his beat includes cybersecurity, elections and the federal government. 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(Photo by Marc Piscotty\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header class=\"post-item__meta\" readability=\"1.8358208955224\">\n<h3 class=\"post-item__title\"> <a class=\"post-item__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/tina-peters-unapologetic-bannon-interview-polis-commutation\/\"> Tina Peters, convicted in election-security breach, emerges defiant and vows legal fight <\/a> <\/h3>\n<p> The former Colorado election clerk struck an unrepentant pose in her first interview after her prison sentence was commuted by Colorado Governor Jared Polis. <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/derek-johnson\/\"> Derek B. Johnson <\/a> <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <\/header>\n<p> <\/article>\n<article class=\"post-item post-item--popular-stories-cards \">\n<figure class=\"post-item__thumbnail\"> <a class=\"post-item__thumbnail-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/usps-mail-in-ballot-restrictions-trump-order\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-3.jpg?resize=252%2C168&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-ratio-16-9-sm size-ratio-16-9-sm wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg 4772w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=252,168 252w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=506,337 506w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=1013,675 1013w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-7.jpg?resize=1265,843 1265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\"> <\/a><figcaption class=\"screen-reader-text\"> A voter casts a ballot in a drop box outside the Union Market Super Vote Center during early voting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header class=\"post-item__meta\">\n<h3 class=\"post-item__title\"> <a class=\"post-item__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/usps-mail-in-ballot-restrictions-trump-order\/\"> USPS moving forward with mail-in ballot changes as courts weigh Trump\u2019s election order <\/a> <\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/derek-johnson\/\"> Derek B. Johnson <\/a> <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <\/header>\n<p> <\/article>\n<article class=\"post-item post-item--popular-stories-cards \">\n<figure class=\"post-item__thumbnail\"> <a class=\"post-item__thumbnail-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/colorado-election-denier-tina-peters-sentence-commuted-governor-jared-polis\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-4.jpg?resize=252%2C168&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-ratio-16-9-sm size-ratio-16-9-sm wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg 6720w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=252,168 252w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=506,337 506w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=1013,675 1013w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/supreme-court-approves-mail-in-ballots-that-arrive-after-election-day-8.jpg?resize=1265,843 1265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\"> <\/a><figcaption class=\"screen-reader-text\"> SEDALIA, CO \u2013 JUNE 28: Mesa County Clerk and Colorado Republican candidate for secretary of state Tina Peters (C) follows election results with supporters during a primary night watch party at the Wide Open Saloon on June 28, 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado. Peters lost to former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson, who will move on to face Democratic incumbent Jena Griswold. (Photo by Marc Piscotty\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header class=\"post-item__meta\">\n<h3 class=\"post-item__title\"> <a class=\"post-item__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/colorado-election-denier-tina-peters-sentence-commuted-governor-jared-polis\/\"> Colorado governor commutes prison sentence for election denier Tina Peters <\/a> <\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/derek-johnson\/\"> Derek B. 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