Election Day Not Month

Congress established Election Day. Courts need to ensure it doesn’t become Election Month

Washington Examiner • July 13, 2023 • Subscribe to Washington Examiner

When Election Day actually lasts for weeks, logic says something is wrong with the system. Now, there’s a lawsuit that compellingly argues that extending deadlines past Election Day violates federal law as well.

Plaintiff Mark Splonskowski, the county auditor of Burleigh County, North Dakota, deserves to win the suit. His victory should, in a just world, set a precedent for states across the nation to end their practices of allowing vote deadline leniency. It shouldn’t take weeks after Election Day just to start counting some votes, not to mention actually seeing final results.

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North Dakota’s system is particularly egregious. There, ballots can still be counted even if they arrive up to 13 days after Election Day. Utah and Illinois are among other states that, like North Dakota, merely require that mail-in ballots be postmarked, but not necessarily delivered, by the end of Election Day itself. Illinois had six congressional races close enough for the results to remain in doubt while officials waited for late-arriving ballots.

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Election Day Not Month

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