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The main Article I, Section 4 argument concerned Pennsylvania’s mail ballot deadline. Critics said the state legislature had set a deadline for receiving ballots, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated the Elections Clause when it extended that deadline and allowed some ballots without clear postmarks to be presumed timely. They argued that only the legislature—or Congress—could change the rules for congressional elections.
There are two important limits to that argument: the clause covers elections for House and Senate, not the presidential Electoral College process; and the Supreme Court did not issue a ruling that the 2020 election violated Article I, Section 4. In the Pennsylvania case, it declined to grant the requested relief. In the separate Texas case challenging other states’ election procedures, it rejected Texas’s filing for lack of standing, without deciding the merits.
