Judicial Watch founder Tom Fitton posted a tweet on Sunday about a significant federal lawsuit in California to stop the state from counting ballots received up to 7 days after Election Day.
Tom Fitton wrote: Hey everyone, Judicial Watch just filed a major new federal lawsuit in California to stop that state’s counting of ballots that are received up to 7 days after Election Day. We filed the lawsuit on behalf of Congressman Darrell Issa, who’s from California. Federal law sets an Election Day, not an election week, not an election month. In fact, an appellate court in another Judicial Watch lawsuit ruled that counting ballots received after Election Day violates federal law. It undermines election integrity, undermines confidence in the people in the fair administration of the elections, and of course violates federal law.
MASSIVE: We are on the cusp of a @JudicialWatch Supreme Court argument on MONDAY that could result in STOPPING over 30 states from counting of ballots that arrive days and weeks AFTER Eleciton Day. Most important eleciton integrity case in modern history. pic.twitter.com/6hLnvGhuGI
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) March 20, 2026
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today, Monday, in a landmark election integrity case over whether the federal Election Day laws prohibit the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.
At the center of the dispute is Watson v. RNC, a case challenging Mississippi’s law allowing absentee ballots to be received up to five business days after Election Day, so long as they are postmarked on or before Election Day.
Mississippi law requires that voters submit their ballots by Election Day, but allows election officials to receive and count them afterward.
The public can view the High Court’s oral arguments here.
You can listen to the live oral argument audio. Here is the link.
From the Judicial Watch webpage:
Judicial Watch’s legal team seeks to uphold a historic ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which found that Mississippi’s counting of ballots received up to five days after Election Day to be unlawful.
The suit has been consolidated with a similar challenge brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC), the Mississippi Republican Party, and others against Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson and local election officials (Watson v. Republican National Committee et al. (No. 24-1260)) (Libertarian Party of Mississippi v. Wetzel et al. (No. 1:24-cv-00037)).
Judicial Watch argues that the ordinary meaning of “election” at the time Congress enacted the statutes includes the full process of voting and the receipt of ballots by officials. Counting post-Election Day ballots is a relatively recent practice without any historic foundation. Allowing ballots to “trickle in” after Election Day creates opportunities for fraud and erodes public confidence.
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