I spent two years defending these Mississippi ballots
In a Democracy Docket opinion piece, Marc Elias recounts the two years he and his firm spent defending Mississippi's law counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but arriving within five business days, after the Republican National Committee sued to invalidate it in January 2024. He says they won at the Supreme Court 5-4 in Watson v. Republican National Committee, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett writing that election mechanics belong to the states by default, and that the ruling let Hinds County's late absentee ballots — which grew Scott Colom's Senate lead by 58 votes — be counted rather than discarded.
