Weekend Update: Maine Ballots Must Be Received By Election Day
Apologies for interrupting everyone’s Saturday, but one quick update from Maine: It hasn’t been getting as much attention as other states, but there had also been a lawsuit pending in Maine to extend the deadline for absentee ballots to be received from Nov. 3 to Nov. 13. Late yesterday, however, the Maine Supreme Court upheld the state’s requirement that all ballots must be received by Election Day. That’s likely to be the final say on the matter.
By my count, that leaves only North Carolina and Wisconsin whose absentee-ballot deadlines are still in legal limbo. Both of those cases will be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming days.