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Supreme Court opens election litigation floodgates, says any candidate can challenge voting laws
Any candidate for federal office may challenge election laws governing their election, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision Wednesday, potentially triggering a deluge of litigation over the counting and certifying of results.
The Supreme Court overturned the 7th Circuit Court in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, which had itself upheld a lower court decision, finding that Rep. Michael Bost (R-Ill.) had standing to challenge a state law allowing for the counting of mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day if they were postmarked prior.*
The court agreed to hear the case only on the question of Bost’s standing, not the validity of his underlying lawsuit against postal voting grace periods. The justices will hear oral arguments on that issue later this year in a separate case challenging Mississippi’s mail voting law.
