The Supreme Court case attempting to sabotage voting by mail, explained

Fulton County elections workers process absentee ballots at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center on November 4, 2024, in Union City, Georgia. | Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images

The premise of the Republican Party’s arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee is that, nearly 200 years ago, Congress banned the states from counting thousands of the ballots that are cast every year in modern-day elections — and somehow no one noticed this fact until 2024.

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