Watson v. Republican National Committee · ¶95

The majority brushes aside this impressive historical record because respondents have not offered direct evidence that state actors believed that federal law required these often-burdensome procedures and timelines. Ante, at 12– 13. For all we know, the majority reasons, the States might have insisted on receiving ballots by election day for their own independent reasons. Ibid.

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