The Supreme Court has blocked an order that extended the deadline for submitting absentee votes hours before Wisconsin’s primary.
The top court ruled 5-4 on Monday night to stay a lower court’s decision that allowed Wisconsin voters to submit absentee ballots six days after election day, pending an appeal to the court. The justices ruled that in order for a voter’s absentee ballot to be counted in the election, the ballot must either be postmarked by April 7 and received by 4 p.m. April 13, or hand-delivered by 8 pm. April 7.
