A case pending before the Supreme Court could address delayed ballot counts, restoring a measure of trust in the United States voting process. The recent mayoral race in Los Angeles is bringing the country’s focus back to how elections are conducted in different parts of the country, and many people have questions about delayed ballot counts that somehow coincidentally shift the balance of races days after votes are cast. Justices heard oral arguments in the Mississippi case of Watson v. Republican National Committee in March, and the ruling could put an end to counting ballots up to five days after the official election date. Mississippi is one of “at least 14 states, along with California, New York and Texas, as well as the District of Columbia, with laws that allow for late ballots so long as envelopes are postmarked by Election Day. Around 30 states have some sort of grace period for absentee ballots as well, letting military or US citizens abroad cast their votes,” according to The New York Times. Republicans argue that such late ballot counting is unconstitutional, and as Los Angeles residents still don’t know who their next mayor will be days after the election, that argument may carry some merit. RNC Chairman Joe Gruters spoke to The Post about what he calls the “failure” of LA’s voting system. “What’s happening in California is a Democrat failure on full display. Nearly a week after the primary, it is completely unacceptable ballots are still being counted. That’s why the RNC is aggressively fighting in the Supreme Court to stop ballots received after Election Day from being counted. Americans deserve timely election results they can trust,” he said. SCOTUS is expected to rule on the case ahead of its recess later this month. X users weighed in: If scotus does nothing,

Voter Fraud: Los Angeles County Woman Pleads Guilty To Paying People In Skid Row To Vote via The Epoch Times, LOS ANGELES – A woman who worked as a longtime signature collector for ballot initiatives pleaded guilty on June 8 to paying homeless people in Los Angeles’ Skid Row and elsewhere $2 or $3 to register to vote. An “I Voted” sign points to a Vote Center in Los Angeles on June 1, 2026. Mario Tama/Getty Images Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, of Marina del Rey, also known as “Anika,” entered a plea to one count of paying another person to register to vote, a federal charge that carries a penalty of up to five years behind bars. Sentencing was scheduled for Aug. 31. According to her plea agreement, for nearly 20 years, Armstrong periodically worked as a “petition circulator.” In that role, she was paid by coordinators to collect voter signatures on official petitions that qualify initiatives, referendums and recalls for California state ballots. Prosecutors said Armstrong drove around the Los Angeles area to find registered voters to sign the petitions. After gathering enough signatures, Armstrong returned the petitions to her coordinators, who then paid her a set amount for each registered voter’s signature. The amount she was paid varied depending on the specific ballot initiative. Because her coordinators only paid for signatures attributable to registered voters, Armstrong endeavored to ensure the people who signed her petitions were registered voters, court papers show. Armstrong admitted soliciting signatures in Skid Row, a convenient place for the defendant to collect signatures because of its high concentration of people in a relatively small area who were willing to sign petitions in exchange for cash. Armstrong regularly paid amounts between $2 and $3 to induce people to sign her petitions, officials said. Prosecutors