True or False: Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have laws allowing mail ballots to be counted if received after Election Day as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

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True. Approximately 30 states and the District of Columbia allow mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if received within a specified grace period afterward. Grace periods range from 3 days (Massachusetts, Nevada) to 21 days (Washington for general elections). If the Supreme Court rules for the RNC, similar laws in 27 other states beyond the Fifth Circuit would be invalidated, forcing last-minute rewrites before the November 2026 midterms.

True or False: Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have laws allowing mail ballots to be counted if received after Election Day as long as they were postmarked by Election Day.

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