And we are back. With another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge. As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com. Follow us on X at FBRLST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you

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Our guest today is Jason Sneed, executive director of the Honest Elections Project.

Here's the question. Does election day actually mean Election Day? That is the key

issue before the U.S. Supreme Court. The court, of course, heard oral arguments in the case

known as Watson v. R&C, the legal dispute on the challenge to a Mississippi law allowing election

officials to accept mail-in ballots up to five business days after election day, so long as

they are postmarked on or before the day of the contest. And as you can imagine, the arguments this week have been very

interesting on this case. Jason, thank you so much for joining us in this edition of the

Federalist Radio Hour. Well, it's great to be with you. Thanks for having me on the program.

Absolutely. You covered the oral arguments. Give me your sense of what the court is really

trying to get at here from, or at least get some answers to in this case.

Well, this case, as you very eloquently laid out,

really comes down to a fairly straightforward question.

Does the election day mean election day?

And when do we actually consider a ballot to be cast?

Is it when you fill out the piece of paper that is the ballot or is it when it is

actually received by an election official, by somebody that is designated by the state to take

possession of that ballot, to establish chain of custody, and then eventually to count or not count

if for some reason, you know know you violated the law for instance

bailed to comply with the voter ID standard or something like that for a long time in fact for

most of the nation's history we have understood and we have gone to great pains to establish very

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