Nevada Election Officials: ‘We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Postmarks!’

The Nevada supreme court has ruled that election officials can count mail ballots with no postmark that are received as many as three days after Election Day.

In the 1948 movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a Mexican bandit boasts to Humphrey Bogart’s adventurer character that “we don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” The Nevada supreme court is, in effect, saying, “We don’t need no postmarks” to declare that a ballot that arrives after Election Day is valid.