A Mississippi law that allows ballots received up to five days after an election to be counted is lawful, a federal judge ruled on July 28.
U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. pointed in part to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which governs ballots from citizens residing overseas.
“So if one federal statute implicitly allows post-election receipt of overseas ballots mailed by election day, that statute is presumed not to offend against the election-day statutes, from which one may infer that the similar Mississippi statute on post-election receipt is likewise inoffensive,” the judge wrote in a 24-page ruling….