Republicans in North Carolina have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block lower court rulings that allowed six extra days to accept ballots sent by mail.
The Trump campaign said extending the deadline would "pose an immediate threat to the integrity of the federal election process."
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the presidential battleground state of North Carolina asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block lower court rulings that allowed six extra days to accept ballots sent by mail. The board changed the mail ballot deadline from Nov. 6, which the Legislature set in June, to Nov. 12. A federal district judge refused to block the change, and so did the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals."All ballots must still be mailed on or before Election Day," said Judge James A. Wynn Jr. of the appeals court."The change is simply an extension from three to nine days after Election Day for a timely ballot to be received and counted. That is all.
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