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WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court ruled against Republicans’ attack on mail-in ballots on Monday, shoring up election rules in over a dozen states ahead of the midterms. Nearly 200 years ago, Congress mandated federal elections be held uniformly on one Tuesday in November every other year. Accordingly, all states require ballots to be cast by federal Election Day. But since states have authority over the time, manner and places of such elections, nearly 30 states and the District of Columbia allow at least some ballots that are cast by Election Day to be counted if they are received soon after that. Kelsey Reichman and Megan Butler, Courthouse News Service.
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Harvard Kennedy School Executive Session on Elections and Election Administration
By the Members of the Executive Session on Elections and Election Administration, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School (list below)
Over the last several years, state and local election officials have been under enormous pressure and confronted challenges nobody could have fully anticipated. Recognizing that the people best equipped to develop ideas and strategies for navigating this new world are the election officials themselves, in 2023 the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School launched an “Executive Session on Elections and Election Administration.”
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