Supreme Court upholds late-arriving mail ballots in Mississippi

The Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if postmarked by Election Day and received within five business days. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled federal election law does not require ballots to be received by Election Day, reversing a lower court that had sided with the Republican National Committee and Mississippi Republican Party. Roughly 30 states have similar laws permitting late-arriving mail ballots.