State, federal GOP challenging Republican Legislature's law allowing absentee ballot counting for five days after an election.
Federal court hearing on Mississippi absentee ballots pits Republicans against Republicans by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today July 8, 2024 A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday on a lawsuit brought by the state and national Republican parties and the state Libertarian Party that seeks to bar Mississippi election workers from counting mail-in absentee ballots after the date of an election. U.S.
Watson’s office, as well as two voting rights advocacy groups who have intervened in the litigation, argued in separate briefs that the federal suit should be dismissed because the political parties lack legal standing to bring the suit. “The Mississippi statute does not harm the plaintiff individuals or political parties in any way,” Special Assistant Attorney General Rex Shannon III wrote in a pleading on behalf of Watson’s office.
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