The Justice Department told a federal appeals court this week that state laws counting mail-in ballots days after Election Day do not run afoul of the Constitution or federal law.  More ability and time for Dems to cheat.

    The Justice Department filed a brief in support of Mississippi officials in defending the state’s law that allows absentee ballots to be counted five days after Election Day so long as they were postmarked by Election Day. Kristen Clarke, an assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, said Tuesday in the filing that states have been able to count ballots after Election Day since the Civil War.  The organization asked for the state law to be enjoined, and argued that Congress set one federal Election Day.

     “Mississippi contravenes those federal laws by counting mail-in ballots that are received up to five business days after Election Day,” the original complaint read.  “Mississippi effectively extends Mississippi’s federal election past the Election Day established by Congress. The result of Mississippi’s violation of federal law is that timely, valid ballots are diluted by untimely, invalid ballots, which violates the rights of candidates, campaigns, and voters under federal law,” read the complaint, filed Jan. 26, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.  The district court granted the state officials’ motion for summary judgment, and the RNC appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.