Nevada Supreme Court Handed down a Devastating Ruling on Mail-in Ballots and Election Integrity

This presidential election will likely come down to key swing states, and could very well be a close and competitive race. If that’s indeed the case, though, we might not know the results until several days after Election Day. Monday’s ruling from the Nevada Supreme Court on accepting mail-in ballots without a postmark and after the election, not only doesn’t help the timeline, it also strikes a devastating blow to election integrity for years to come.

“By removing the necessity for any proof that a ballot has passed through the postal service and thereby negating a critical ballot security measure, the Nevada Supreme Court has opened wide the doors to rampant ballot fraud,” streiff aptly wrote at our sister site of RedState. He also included a copy of the court’s opinion.

As The Hill reported on Monday about the decision:

Nevada’s Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision Monday allowing mail ballots to be counted if they arrive without a postmark up to three days after the Nov. 5 election.

A majority of the high court ruled the state law requiring mail-in ballots to be counted even if the postmark “cannot be determined” applied to ballots without any postmark, as well as ballots whose postmarks are illegible.

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“If a voter properly and timely casts their vote by mailing their ballot before or on the day of the election, and through a post office omission the ballot is not postmarked, it would go against public policy to discount that properly cast vote,” Nevada’s majority opinion read.

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“Requiring ballots to be postmarked on or before election day is a critical election integrity safeguard that ensures ballots mailed after election day are not counted,” said RNC Spokesperson Claire Zunk. “It is also a requirement of Nevada law. By allowing Nevada officials to ignore the law’s postmark requirement, the state’s highest court has undermined the integrity of Nevada’s elections.”

This is messed up.

Vote Republican in Nevada! https://t.co/EBPGbLyajp

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2024

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