Universal mail-in voting jeopardizes the equal right to vote, but absentee voting protects it

The Hill ^ | September 9, 2020 | C. Boyden Gray

[karpov]

With less than two months to Nov. 3, officials planning to mail live ballots to every voter are running out of time to heed the lessons of the election dispute I survived two decades ago: States must treat every eligible vote the same. But state universal mail-in procedures and shifting ballot count deadlines jeopardize the equal right to vote. Universal mail-in voting risks both the dilution of legitimate votes and the disenfranchisement of eligible voters — equal protection problems eliminated by common-sense absentee voting procedures.

In Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court held “the equal dignity owed to each voter” precludes state laws that “value one person’s vote over that of another,” whether through the “dilution of the weight of a citizen’s vote” or “wholly prohibiting the free exercise of the franchise.” But “the absence of specific standards” meant Al Gore’s county-specific recounts in Florida in 2000 violated equal protection guarantees.

States that plan to indiscriminately mail live ballots to voters who have not requested them will crash into the same constitutional brick wall as Gore’s Florida recounts.

Americans move between elections — normally about 10 percent each year. That percentage is even higher in 2020. Millions of people moved to escape coronavirus. Moving in a pandemic is complicated enough. It is reasonable to expect many voters did not remember to tell their new address to the local Board of Elections. It is unclear how migration — by potentially one-fifth of Americans, according to the Pew Research Center — will affect the election. Haphazardly lobbing a ballot to everyone on the voter rolls under these circumstances may disenfranchise many thousands of people who no longer live where they registered.

[karpov]

"C. Boyden Gray was counsel to Vice President George H.W. Bush, 1981-1989, and President Bush’s White House counsel, 1989-1993. He was U.S. ambassador to the European Union and a special envoy for European and Eurasia affairs during the George W. Bush administration. He is now in private law practice in Washington."

[Blood of Tyrants]

Plus California allows illegals to register to vote when they get their drivers license.

[EagleUSA]

*** TOTAL LYING BULL CRAP *** (so to speak)

[Liz]

Democrats’ election hysteria has reached strait-jacket proportions.....

Speaker “Blown-Dry Pelosi” has summoned the House back to DC to pass emergency legislation
prohibiting changes in the postal service’s operations until after the election.......

House Democrats are resentful at being called back, prevented from
adding up their federal holding at offshore banking locations......cackle

Even with the conniving and finagling, stupid Democraps know they’re losing bigtime.
<><> they got a braindead candidate who needs to be drugged-up to make appearances,
<><> Biden’s wy ahead, polls say; he’s exhausted from greeting all those adoring crowds (/s)
<><> Dems brought out The Big Democrap Smear Machine;
<><> Dems couldnt get The Machine to work on Trump.

[Liz]

h/t Dick Bachert

[Puppage]

This is what makes Joe President. Fraud.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t think we are doing universal ballots. We are doing universal ballot applications.

[jmacusa]

Yesterday the mail came to my house. My wife and I live in NJ. They sent us one ballot. One. In a home with two people.

[Honest Nigerian]

Never mind the right to vote.
How about the right for only all of the legal votes be the ones that are counted?

[vigilence]

It’s the difference between being a verified absentee voter a unverified mail in voter.