Can ballots be counted even if they’re two weeks late?
By Bob Unruh
Election Day in America for generations as meant Election Day: That single day, for presidential elections in November, when voter cast ballots and those ballots are counted.
A winner is announced then.
But in recent years legislators and others have expanded that window: It’s now often election weeks or even more, as they’ve agreed that ballots that come in late still should be counted.
That’s faced opposition from Republicans for multiple elections, and now the U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed it will weigh in.