In advance of the 2020 general election, Mississippi's Republican trifecta enacted a GOP-sponsored law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted for up to five days after the election. {SNIP} The Legislature's move to revoke its previously uncontroversial receipt deadline " which has been in place for almost four years " is transpiring against the backdrop of a legal offensive led by the Republican National Committee (RNC). {SNIP-Republicans in MS are filing a challenge to the law (instead of overturning it)} By bringing a proactive test case before a conservative federal district court in Mississippi, the RNC hoped that it could secure the imprimatur of a Republican-appointed judge who might be amenable to its far-fetched arguments around ballot deadlines. According to the committee's spokesperson, a favorable ruling in the case would "have major ramifications in future elections " not just in Mississippi but across the country."