Supreme Court won't challenge relaxed mail-in ballot rules for Rhode Island absentee voters

The Supreme Court will allow Rhode Island’s loosened mail-in voting requirements, which were passed to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

The court declined to intervene on Thursday in a battle over whether state residents, who previously needed to sign mail-in ballots in front of two witnesses or a notary, would have to go through the process for November’s election. The justices noted in their unsigned order rebuffing the Republican National Committee, which asked them to step in, that GOP lawmakers had already agreed to the provisions during the primary.