Federal Judge Rejects Challenge to Mail-in Ballots in North Dakota

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging North Dakota’s mail-in ballot law that allows ballots to be counted for days after Election Day.

Empty envelopes of opened vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary are stacked on a table at King County Elections in Renton, Wash., on March 10, 2020. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a legal foundation focused on election integrity cases that sought to invalidate a North Dakota law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted for 13 days after Election Day.

U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor said in his Feb. 2 order that the lawsuit both lacked standing and failed to show harm or violation of constitutional rights.