2024 Election Court Rulings: Nevada Allows Late Ballots

October 28The Nevada Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that allows the state to count unpostmarked ballots received up to three days after Election Day, following the Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign. indicted to prevent ballots from being counted, claiming this would unlawfully dilute ballots that follow proper procedures.

October 25A federal appeals court ruled it is illegal for Mississippi to accept ballots arriving after Election Day — but sent the case back to the lower district court for “appropriate relief,” so it is still unclear whether late-arriving ballots will be accepted in this election.

October 25A federal judge ordered Virginia to recover more than 1,600 voters to the voter rolls after the state removed them for allegedly not being citizens – with attorneys citing evidence showing that many removed voters are U.S. citizens and were wrongly removed from the rolls – after the Justice Department indicted Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares for allegedly violating federal law by purging voter rolls too close to the election.

October 23The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled Voters whose mail-in ballots were rejected due to flaws — such as problems with their signature or the date — can cast provisional ballots to ensure they can vote, after the RNC defended a county’s decision to allow them to prevent voters from casting their ballots if their postal votes were rejected.

October 22The Supreme Court of Georgia maintained blocks a lower court ruling new voting rules take effect — such as a requirement to hand-count ballots and other provisions that Democrats warned could delay the certification of election results — meaning that while the lawsuits will continue, the rules won’t be in effect during the general elections.

October 22A federal judge rejected a Republican National Committee-led lawsuit in Michigan that challenged the state’s voter rolls, claiming that the number of voters was “impossibly high” and that the state did not remove voters from their voter rolls as required by law, where the judge ruled that Plaintiffs have not provided sufficient evidence that a crime has occurred.

October 21Judges in Michigan and North Carolina rejected lawsuits brought by the RNC against out-of-state voters who cast ballots in those states even if they never actually lived there — for example, if their parents or spouse lived there — with the Michigan judge calling it an “eleventh-hour attempt” to disenfranchise these people from voters.

October 18A federal judge in Nevada rejected an RNC lawsuit challenging the state’s voter rolls—claiming, as in Michigan, that the number of voters was “impossibly high”—dismissing the lawsuit for a second time and ruling that the plaintiffs failed to provide “concrete details’ about misconduct.

October 17A judge appointed by Trump in North Carolina knocked down a Republican lawsuit seeking to remove 225,000 voters from the state’s voter rolls on the grounds of fraud, with the judge ruling that removing those voters would move the state “away from a democratic form of government.”

October 16The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled convicted felons can vote in the state after serving their sentences, crushing an effort by the state to prevent them from voting, as Nebraska could become. decisive to determine which presidential candidate wins the Electoral College.

October 16A federal judge blocked a program in Alabama that purged voters from voter rolls — claiming it would help prevent noncitizens from voting — after the Justice Department sued to halt the program because it was too close to the election.

October 16A lower state judge in Georgia blocked the new election rules in Georgia, that could have delayed the certification of votes, after Democrats argued that the state election commission’s new rules could cause “chaos” in November.

October 15The Supreme Court of Ohio maintained restrictions on ballot drop boxes, after the state implemented new restrictions that say people dropping off ballots for voters with disabilities must go to an election office instead of leaving the ballot in a drop box.

October 15A state judge in Georgia has issued a ruling that names state election workers must certify their county’s election results — regardless of whether they believe the ballots were fraudulent — after an official who had refused to certify the results in the past requested clarification and more than a dozen local officials voted against the certification in recent years.

October 12A federal judge rejected an attempt by conservatives to require Arizona to confirm voters’ citizenship ahead of the election.

October 7The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rejected to take up two voting cases after Democrats challenged counties to throw out ballots with incorrect or missing dates, and Republicans opposed some county officials letting voters correct their problems with their mail-in ballots, which the state law should not be allowed.