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FILE - Election workers Heidi McGettigan, left, Margaret Wohlford, center, and David Jensen, unload a bag of ballots brought in a from a polling precinct to the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters office in Sacramento, Calif., June 5, 2018.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day. The high court on Monday will hear from Republicans and Libertarians who sued the state, arguing that federal Election Day statutes envision a single day for casting ballots, which would mean that grace periods for receiving mail ballots aren't allowed. The practice is a frequent target of President Donald Trump and allies who argue it delays vote tallies and leads to suspicions about the results, even though there is no evidence of fraud in late-arriving ballots. Grace periods for all mail ballots are allowed in 14 states, with an additional 15 granting extra time for military and overseas ballots to arrive.
