Blue States Back Minnesota Ballot Deadline Against GOP Appeal
The mail-in ballot extension survived an earlier court challenge by the Trump campaign, which focused on Minnesota as a possible battleground.
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A group of Democratic state officials urged a federal appeals court not to block Minnesota’s plan to allow mail-in ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 to be counted as long as a week after Election Day.
The extension encourages safer voting during the coronavirus pandemic and assures more ballots will be properly counted in light of persistent U.S. Postal Service delays -- a factor “over which voters have no control,” attorneys general for a dozen states and the District of Columbia said in a brief Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri.