Fed appeal court rules mailed ballot must be received by Election Day in MN, cutting weeklong window

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2. Minnesota Ordered to Segregate Ballots Arriving After Election

(Bloomberg) -- A federal appeals court ordered Minnesota election officials to segregate mail-in ballots that arrive after Nov. 3 in case a future court order requires such votes to be purged from the count.

Republicans are challenging Minnesota’s plan to accept mail-in ballots up to a week after Election Day as long as they’re postmarked by Nov. 3 -- an extension the state put in place to account for an expected flood of absentee voting during the pandemic.

The decision Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis is a setback for Democrats, whose nationwide effort to ensure ballots mailed by Election Day get counted has had mixed success, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Late-arriving ballots must be “removed from vote totals in the event a final order is entered by a court of competent jurisdiction determining such votes to be invalid or unlawfully counted,” the court said in a 2-1 decision.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/minnesota-ordered-to-segregate-ballots-arriving-after-election/ar-BB1aw9BW?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP