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Not Just California: Where Vote Counts Drag On Beyond Election Day and Why SCOTUS Could End It
California is not the only state with trouble counting votes on time.
On Friday, New Jersey finished counting in the state’s 9th Congressional District Republican primary, and Clifton City Councilwoman Rosie Pino defeated Tiffany Burress to advance to a November faceoff against Democrat incumbent Rep. Nellie Pou, the Associated Press reported.
While California received national attention for slow-arriving mail votes that flipped the outcome of the Los Angeles mayoral primary election, New Jersey is among at least 17 states and the District of Columbia that keep counting mail ballots arriving after Election Day. At least two states allow ballots to arrive up to two weeks after Election Day.
Across the nation, in previous years, ballot counts have dragged out because of permissive state laws. However, a highly-anticipated Supreme Court ruling could change that.
What Will SCOTUS Decide?
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month in a case that could mitigate the likelihood of taking weeks to know who won an election. In the case of Republican National Committee v. Michael Watson, the Mississippi secretary of state, justices will essentially decide if Election Day is the final deadline for votes to arrive. Mississippi counts votes that arrive up to five days after Election Day.
A majority of justices seemed favorable to the RNC during the oral arguments in March.
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