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14  DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE v. WISCONSIN 
STATE LEGISLATURE 
KAVANAUGH, J., concurring 

at the same prediction, but it was a prediction, not a finding 
of fact.  Indeed, the District Court did not include this pre-
diction in the facts section of its opinion.  Democratic Na-
tional  Committee  v.  Bostelmann,  ___  F. Supp.  3d  ___,  ___ 
(WD Wis., Sept. 21, 2020).  For its part, the dissent makes 
the same prediction by looking at the number of absentee 
ballots that arrived after the primary election day in April.  
But in the April primary, the received-by deadline had been 
extended to allow receipt of absentee ballots after election 
day.    The  dissent’s  statistic  tells  us  nothing  about  how 
many  voters  might  miss  the  deadline  when  voters  know 
that the ballots must be received by election day.  To take 
an  analogy: How  many  people would  file  their  taxes  after 
April  15  if  the  filing  deadline  were  changed  to  April  21?  
Lots.    That  fact  tells  us  nothing  about  how  many  people 
would file their taxes after April 15 if the deadline remained 
at April 15.   
  The dissent also seizes on the fact that Wisconsin law al-
lows voters to request absentee ballots until October 29, five 
days before election day.  But the dissent does not grapple 
with  the  good  reason  why  the  State  allows  such  late  re-
quests.  The State allows those late requests for ballots be-
cause  it  wants  to  accommodate  late  requesters  who  still 
want to obtain an absentee ballot so that they can drop it 
off in person and avoid lines at the polls on election day.  No 
one thinks that voters who request absentee ballots as late 
as October  29  can  both  receive  the  ballots  and  mail  them 
back in time to be received by election day.  As we stated in 
April, “even in an ordinary election, voters who request an 
absentee  ballot  at  the  deadline  for  requesting  ballots  . . . 
will usually receive their ballots on the day before or day of 
the election.”  RNC, 589 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 3).  Rather, 
those late requesters would, after receiving the ballots, nec-
essarily have to drop their absentee ballots off in person at 
one  of  the  designated  locations.    In  short,  Wisconsin  pro-
vides an option to request absentee ballots until October 29