US appeals court rejects Mississippi law on late-arriving mail-in ballots
Adds further details on ruling in paragraphs 3-6
By Nate Raymond
Oct 25 (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court sided on Friday with Republicans by finding a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they are received up to five days after an election ran afoul of federal law stipulating when Election Day occurs.
The ruling by a conservative three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called into question mail-in voting practices used in about 20 states nationally, in a voting-rights fight that many predict may end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The court stopped short of blocking Mississippi's law, citing the need to preserve the status quo ahead of the Nov. 5 election that will decide control of Congress and whether Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris or Republican former President Donald Trump will occupy the White House.
But the panel sided with the Republican National Committee, the Mississippi Republican Party and two Republican voters who sued in January to challenge the Mississippi law, which was enacted by the state's Republican-controlled legislature in 2020. The state's Libertarian Party filed a similar lawsuit.
U.S. Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham, a Trump appointee, wrote for the panel that Mississippi's law was preempted by federal law establishing a singular day for the election of Congress and the president.
"Federal law requires voters to take timely steps to vote by Election Day," he wrote. "And federal law does not permit the state of Mississippi to extend the period for voting by one day, five days, or 100 days."
Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston
Editing by Chris Reese and Rod Nickel
免责声明: XM Group仅提供在线交易平台的执行服务和访问权限，并允许个人查看和/或使用网站或网站所提供的内容，但无意进行任何更改或扩展，也不会更改或扩展其服务和访问权限。所有访问和使用权限，将受下列条款与条例约束：(i) 条款与条例；(ii) 风险提示；以及(iii) 完整免责声明。请注意，网站所提供的所有讯息，仅限一般资讯用途。此外，XM所有在线交易平台的内容并不构成，也不能被用于任何未经授权的金融市场交易邀约和/或邀请。金融市场交易对于您的投资资本含有重大风险。
所有在线交易平台所发布的资料，仅适用于教育/资讯类用途，不包含也不应被视为用于金融、投资税或交易相关咨询和建议，或是交易价格纪录，或是任何金融商品或非应邀途径的金融相关优惠的交易邀约或邀请。
本网站上由XM和第三方供应商所提供的所有内容，包括意见、新闻、研究、分析、价格、其他资讯和第三方网站链接，皆保持不变，并作为一般市场评论所提供，而非投资性建议。所有在线交易平台所发布的资料，仅适用于教育/资讯类用途，不包含也不应被视为适用于金融、投资税或交易相关咨询和建议，或是交易价格纪录，或是任何金融商品或非应邀途径的金融相关优惠的交易邀约或邀请。请确保您已阅读并完全理解，XM非独立投资研究提示和风险提示相关资讯，更多详情请点击 这里。
