TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Nov 3, 2020

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., today ordered the U.S. Postal Service to sweep its facilities for remaining mail ballots and rush their delivery, The Hill reports. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan gave postal workers until 3 p.m. EST to "ensure that no ballots have been held up" in regions that have been slow to process mail ballots. The order applies to areas within battleground states Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Texas, Florida and Arizona. With the exception of Pennsylvania and Texas, each of those states requires that mail ballots be received by the close of polls on Election Day, meaning late-arriving ballots would not be counted. Sullivan gave the order after data from the Postal Service showed continued delays in various regions of the country.