District of Columbia, California, Colorado et al., Amici Curiae
The District of Columbia, California and Colorado are joined in this amici brief by 17 other states. The following is excerpted from the Amici Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 9, 2026. Exercising their constitutional authority to regulate federal elections, states have adopted a wide range of policies regarding mail-in absentee ballots. Those policies include setting the day by which an absentee ballot must arrive to be counted and deciding which voters — the general public or a subset of military and overseas voters — may take advantage of extended ballot-receipt deadlines. In…
