Brian Lair on WNYC.

Now we'll look at the implications of yesterday's Supreme Court hearing on mail-in ballots,

specifically the deadline for mailing in those

ballots or for those ballots to be received. This could change the law and what you need to know

in New York and many other states. It actually suggests the question, what is election day,

the term election day, actually mean. Is it a deadline for voters to drop

their ballots off at the mailbox or the deadline for officials to have the ballot in hand? That was

the central question and it may seem narrow, but the implications by all accounts are pretty large. The central question in the case, by all accounts, are pretty large.

The central question in the case, Watson versus Republican National Committee,

the Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday.

We'll play a couple of clips.

And it stems from a COVID-era Mississippi law that allowed mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they

were postmarked by Election Day, and currently 14 states, including both New York and New Jersey,

plus some U.S. territories, in addition to those 14 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin

Islands, they all have similar grace periods in

their election laws. And this doesn't even factor in American citizens abroad. This is a big

issue for members of the military who rely on mail-in ballots to cast their votes. And while this

is happening at the Supreme Court, you probably know, we talked about it yesterday,

President Trump is pressuring Congress to pass the SAVE Act, mandating not just voter ID and proof

of citizenship at the polls, but also a ban, a ban on most forms of mail and ballots. That doesn't

get as much press as the voter ID and

proof of citizenship parts, but that's also in there and the implications may be as large.

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