Watson v. Republican National Committee · ¶125

In response to these concerns, the majority counters that the appearance of fraud could persist under respondents’ interpretation of the statute. Ante, at 20. But that contention is as nonresponsive as it is unremarkable. No statutory scheme will eliminate concerns about fraud entirely, and nobody claims that an election-day ballot-receipt deadline would do so. Nevertheless, as the majority acknowledges, election-timing laws are one tool that governments have traditionally used to reduce opportunities for voter fraud. Ante, at 2–3. Indeed, concerns about fraud were a leading cause of the enactment of the federal election-day statutes. Ibid.

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