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Americans have had their mail-in ballots counted after Election Day for generations − a Supreme Court ruling could end the practice

  • Written by Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Honorary Reader in MIgration and Politics, University of Kent
Americans have had their mail-in ballots counted after Election Day for generations − a Supreme Court ruling could end the practiceAn active service member used this election war ballot cover to mail in a vote in the 1944 presidential election.National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution

What is an election and when is it completed?

That’s the legal question at the heart of Watson v. Republican National Committee, the mail-in ballot case the U.S. Supreme Court took up...

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