evidence: A panel of three judges – all appointees of former President Donald Trump – on the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals also had tough questions at a Tuesday hearing for those defending Mississippi’s policy, the target of a GOP lawsuit, of accepting properly-postmarked mail ballots that are received by election officials within five days after an election. [...] Donald Trump has not let go of his 2020 rhetoric railing against mail voting – insisting at times that elections should be "one-day voting" by "paper ballots" – even as he and the Republican party have at other times this cycle encouraged their voters to cast ballots early, including by mail. [...] However, in other states, ending the acceptance of late-arriving ballots could have a bigger impact. Washington state, which conducts its entire election by mail, more than 400,000 ballots that were counted in the 2022 midterms arrived after Election Day.