Politics

SCOTUS Reverses Order Extending Mail-in Voting Deadline in Wisconsin

‘MASSIVE DISENFRANCHISEMENT’

Justice Ginsberg wrote in her dissent that “tens of thousands of voters who timely requested ballots are unlikely to receive them” as a result of the order.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court order that extended the deadline for voters to mail in their ballots for Tuesday’s primary elections in Wisconsin, asserting that to do so would “fundamentally alter the nature of the election.”

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