The Supreme Court‘s ruling this week that cleared the way for candidates to sue over election laws means election-related lawsuits could soon ramp up nationwide, well before voters head to the polls.
The high court ruled 7-2 on Wednesday that Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) has standing to sue Illinois over its late-arriving mail ballot law. The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, established that candidates have the right to sue over laws governing vote counting in their elections. Jason Snead, executive director of Honest Elections Project, told the Washington Examiner that several different types of election rules and laws could now be ripe for litigation after Wednesday’s ruling.
“If you’re going to change ballot receipt windows, if you’re going to change ballot application windows,
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