Trump Loses Fight Over North Carolina Mail-In Ballot Deadline
- Judge says it’s too close to election to overturn the change
- In separate ruling, GOP won dispute over ballot-signature rule
Ballot envelopes at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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President Donald Trump’s campaign can’t block a North Carolina deadline extension for accepting mail-in ballots even though the plan backed by Democrats is probably unconstitutional, a judge ruled.
The extension was improper because it was implemented by election officials rather than the state legislature, U.S. District Judge William Osteen said in a ruling late Wednesday in Greensboro, North Carolina. But the judge said it’s too close to the Nov. 3 contest to reverse such a significant change.