{"id":137603,"date":"2024-10-28T12:57:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=137603"},"modified":"2024-10-28T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:57:59","slug":"late-ballots-in-mississippi-ruled-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=137603","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Late Ballots in Mississippi Ruled Illegal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2024\/10\/25\/court-rules-ballots-arriving-late-shouldnt-be-counted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Wire<\/a>: &#8220;A federal appeals court Friday ruled invalid a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they are postmarked by then,\u201d the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/10\/25\/late-ballots-fifth-circuit-mississippi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe ruling came less than two weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election and could have implications for other states with similar laws.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: &#8220;A federal appeals court Friday ruled invalid a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they are postmarked by then,\u201d the&nbsp;Washington Post&nbsp;reports. \u201cThe ruling came less than two weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election and could have implications for other states&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137604,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137603\/revisions\/137604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}