Indiana’s 65-Or-Older Absentee Voting Law Ruled Constitutional

An Indiana law that permits voters who are at least 65 years old to vote by mail, even though voters under 65 must meet additional requirements, doesn’t violate the 26th Amendment, the Seventh Circuit affirmed in a split decision.

The plaintiffs are a group of Indiana voters who were permitted to vote absentee in the June 2020 primary elections but didn’t qualify for absentee voting that November, because the Indiana Election Commission hadn’t extended its Covid-19 absentee voting order.

The voters, challenging Indiana’s law, asked the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to reverse a lower court’s order ...