The court neither asserted states’ control over elections nor blessed the slow counting of ballots.
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Election officials in 14 states breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the status quo in Watson v. Republican National Committee. The case assessed a Mississippi law that permits mail ballots to be received by election administrators five days after election day so long as the ballots are postmarked by election day.
Stephen Richer is the CEO of Republic Affairs, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the former recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona.
