Bost v. Illinois Bd. of Elections

Case Summary:

Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections arises from a 2022 lawsuit in which Congressman Michael Bost and two Republican presidential elector nominees challenged Illinois’ mail‑ballot rules, which require election officials to count mail ballots that are postmarked or certified by Election Day but received within 14 days afterward. They sued the Illinois State Board of Elections and its executive director, claiming that counting these later‑arriving ballots unlawfully extends the federal Election Day set by 2 U.S.C. § 7 and 3 U.S.C. § 1 and dilutes their votes or forces them to expend additional campaign resources, but both the district court and the Seventh Circuit dismissed the case for lack of Article III standing before the Supreme Court took it up.