2026年8月7日 美国东部时间上午9:43 / 福克斯新闻频道
《选举日 ballot 法案》针对加州等计票可能耗时数日乃至数周的州
作者：亚历克斯·米勒，福克斯新闻
参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德（R-俄克拉荷马州）和参议员迈克·李（R-犹他州）正利用最高法院留下的操作空间，试图阻止加州等蓝色州在选举日投票结束后接收并清点选票。
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【福克斯新闻独家报道】 两名参议院共和党人正利用最高法院留下的政策缺口，迫使加州等蓝色州大幅缩短计票时长。
参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德（R-俄克拉荷马州）和迈克·李（R-犹他州）即将提出一项法案，为全美各州设定联邦级最后期限：所有选票必须在选举日投票结束前收到方可计入结果。
兰克福德将这项名为《选举日 ballot 法案》的提案称为提升美国选举公信力的举措。
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一名选民在投票点填写选票。
“多年来我一直调侃其他州，因为全美有不少州似乎都不知道该如何完成计票工作，”兰克福德在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示，“在俄克拉荷马州，我们的选举在周二晚上7点结束。”
“通常到晚上9点，我们数千个选区的所有选票都已完成统计，”他补充道，“我们随即开始核验流程，之后还会开展审计。我们对选举充满信心，因为我们清楚流程是怎样的。所有人都参与投票，而且我们能在当天完成所有选票的接收。”
兰克福德和李的法案将为缺席选票和邮寄选票设定全国统一的计票最后期限，这意味着如果选票未能在全美各时区的投票结束前送达，将不予计入结果。
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该法案针对的是加州、华盛顿州等计票耗时可能长达数日甚至数周的州，其计票周期远超投票结束时间。
“各州对逾期选票进行计票，无异于在为舞弊敞开大门，并引发民众对选举结果的质疑，”李在一份声明中告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“我们的法案将明确计票规则，仅统计选举日投票结束前收到的选票，以此重建民众的信任。”
兰克福德认为，加州等州“还有纽约这类州”正在破坏民众对选举体系的信任。
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2026年3月19日，参议员迈克·李（R-犹他州）在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦举行的新闻发布会上就《拯救美国法案》发表讲话。
“选民可能需要数周乃至数月才能知道最终的选举结果，”他说，“这在美国绝不应该发生。”
他们此番推动立法的背景是，最高法院刚刚作出裁决：选举日前寄出且盖有邮戳的邮寄选票，即使迟到仍可计入结果。
尽管最高法院表示邮寄投票可以继续进行，但并未明确规定选票计票不得设置最后期限。
“最高法院作出裁决后，相关消息传出时，他们留下了明确的操作空间，表示这一问题可由美国国会界定，”兰克福德说，“因此我提出，我们应介入此事，明确规则。这不应存在争议，本就是为了提升选举公信力的合理举措。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道记者，负责报道美国参议院事务。
Senate Republicans push Election Day deadline for California’s marathon ballot counts
August 7, 2026 9:43am EDT / Fox News
The Ballots by Election Day Act targets states like California, where vote counting can take days or weeks
By Alex Miller, Fox News
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, are taking advantage of an opening left by the Supreme Court to halt blue states like California from accepting and counting ballots after polls close on Election Day.
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FIRST ON FOX: A pair of Senate Republicans are bursting through a crack in the door left by the Supreme Court to force blue states like California to vastly cut down on how long it takes to count ballots.
Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are introducing legislation that would create a federal deadline for states to accept ballots received by the time polls close on Election Day across the country.
Lankford pitched the bill, called the Ballots by Election Day Act, as a bid to build more trust in the country’s elections.
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A voter casts a ballot at a polling location.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I have made fun of other states for years because there’s quite a few states around the country that can’t seem to figure out how to be able to count,” Lankford told Fox News Digital in an interview. “In Oklahoma, our election ends at 7 p.m. on a Tuesday night.”
“Usually by 9 p.m., all of our thousands of precincts are all in and counted,” he continued. “We start the verification process. We do an audit after that. We have great trust in our elections because we know. We all vote. But we get them all in on that.”
Lankford and Lee’s bill would create a nationwide deadline for counting absentee and mail-in ballots, meaning that if those ballots aren’t in by the time polls close across the expanse of time zones in the nation, they won’t be counted.
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It targets states, like California and Washington state, where ballot counting can take days, sometimes weeks, beyond when polls close.
“States counting late ballots are inviting fraud and sowing doubt in their own election results,” Lee told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Our bill will clarify protocol and restore trust by counting only ballots received before the polls close on Election Day.”
Lankford contended that those states, “like California and others, New York,” breed distrust in the system.
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, spoke during a news conference about the SAVE America Act at the U.S. Capitol on March 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“When you vote you may not know for weeks to months what the final election count is,” he said. “That shouldn’t be in the United States of America.”
Their push comes after the Supreme Court’s decision to allow mail-in ballots post-marked before Election Day to still be counted if they came in later.
While the court contended that mail-in balloting could continue, it didn’t explicitly address that there could be no deadline for when the ballots could be counted.
“Once the court made their ruling, as that came out, they left a clear door open to say this could be defined by the United States Congress,” Lankford said. “So I said, let’s step in and actually do that. Let us provide some real clarity for that. This shouldn’t be controversial. This should just be something to build trust in our elections.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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