Voting: Deadline for Mail-In Ballots
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Many tribal communities live in rural areas with limited post office access and longer mail transit times, making it harder to get ballots postmarked and delivered before polls close. Requiring physical receipt by election night, instead of a postmark deadline, raises the risk that ballots mailed on time still arrive too late to count.
“No State may accept for tabulation any ballot (including an absentee or mail-in ballot) that is received by the appropriate election official following the time polls close on the date of the election.”
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Ballots by Election Day Act
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