The conservative group Judicial Watch is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case filed by U.
S. Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, challenging Illinois' law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted 14 days after the election.
Under Illinois law, ballots postmarked by Election Day can be counted as late as 14 days after the election as they arrive at local election authorities. Bost's case argued that Illinois' law violates the federal law establishing Election Day by allowing votes to arrive and be counted for two weeks after the polls close. Two Illinois delegates at the Republican National Convention for President-elect Donald Trump, Laura Pollastrini and Susan Sweeney, are also part of Bost's lawsuit.
Two lower courts have already ruled against Bost's 2022 case against the Illinois State Board of Elections. The U.S.
7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled in August that Bost lacked standing to sue in the case. People are also reading..
. But the legal fight is not over for Judicial Watch, which filed an appeal to the U.S.
Supreme Court on Nov. 19 asking the court to take up the case in hopes justices might strike down Illinois' law. "Specific holdings in this case will tend to make the next electoral cycle as fraught as 2020," the group argues.
The filing cited numerous cases from 2020 challenging election laws and outcomes, some of which Judicial Watch was a part of, in efforts to block the counting of mail-in ballots. Many other states also allow late-arriving mail-.