The Supreme Court Must End Illegal Vote Counting
Washington Times
Under federal law, Election Day in the United States is not two days, two weeks or two months. It is a single day. That anyone might insist otherwise is difficult to imagine.
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, a case challenging Illinois’ decision to count mail-in-ballots that arrive up to 14 days after Election Day. For 180 years, Election Day has been held on the same day in November. This date has been repeatedly reaffirmed by Congress and solidified into U.S. law. Yet in 2005, in flagrant violation of that law, Illinois began permitting the counting of mail-in ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day.
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Kavanaugh Blasts Illinois For Flip-Flopping on Candidate Standing in Election Litigation
The Federalist
Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh admonished the Democrat-led state of Illinois for seemingly flip-flopping on arguments it made in a high-stakes case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The moment occurred during oral arguments for Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, which centers around a 2022 challenge brought by Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., and other Republicans against a state law allowing ballots to be counted up to two weeks after Election Day. Dismissed by the lower courts over alleged “lack of standing,” the plaintiffs have asked the justices to address the “sole question” of whether they, “as federal candidates, have pleaded sufficient factual allegations to show Article III standing to challenge state time, place, and manner regulations concerning their federal elections.”
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