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MASSIVE @JUDICIALWATCH VICTORY: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said counting ballots received after Election Day contradicts federal law!
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Judicial Watch Victory: Federal Appeals Court Rules against Counting of Ballots Received after Election Day
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has issued an opinion reversing a lower court ruling on Mississippi’s election law that permitted absentee ballots to be received as late as five business days after Election Day.
Earlier this year, Judicial Watch filed the civil rights lawsuit challenging the Mississippi election law on behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi (Libertarian Party of Mississippi v Wetzel et al. (No. 1:24-cv-00037)). The court consolidated the case filed by Judicial Watch with one filed by the Republican National Committee, the Mississippi Republican Party, and other complainants.
(Judicial Watch filed the first challenge to require all ballots be received by Election Day in 2022 against Illinois.)
The Fifth Circuit opinion states in part: