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Supreme Court allows North Carolina mail-in ballot receipt extension

October 29, 2020

Via: Jurist
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The US Supreme Court late Wednesday refused to block North Carolina’s mail-in ballot receipt extension, denying state House Speaker Tim Moore’s request for an injunction. As a result, ballots received up to nine days after the election will be counted as long as they are postmarked by November 3.

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito dissented from the decision, while Justice Clarence Thomas merely stated he would grant the injunction. Justice Amy Coney Barrett took no part in the consideration of the case.

In his dissent, Justice Gorsuch pointed to the Supreme Court’s Monday decision, which disallowed the extension of Wisconsin’s ballot receipt deadline, and analogized the circumstances.

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