Alito torches SCOTUS ruling in mail-in ballot case, warns of voter fraud

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a big defeat on Monday to conservatives seeking to prevent Election Day from becoming little more than an “abstraction.”

The high court ruled 5-4 that the “federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days thereafter,” adding that “nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots received by election day.”

‘Today’s decision compounds these vulnerabilities.’

The case in question, Watson v. Republican National Committee, was the result of a years-long battle over a COVID-era Mississippi law passed by the Magnolia State’s Republican trifecta that permits the counting of mail-in absentee ballots postmarked by the date of the election but received up to five business days after Election Day.

Republicans were wary, in