Posted on 09/21/2020 5:17:48 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin can be counted up to six days after the Nov. 3 presidential election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
The highly anticipated ruling, unless overturned, means that the outcome of the presidential race in Wisconsin likely will not be known for days after polls close. Under current law, the deadline for returning an absentee ballot to have it counted is 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Democrats and their allies sued to extend the deadline in the key swing state.
U.S. District Judge William Conley granted a large portion of their requests, issuing a preliminary injunction that was expected to be appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. He put the ruling on hold for seven days to give the other side a chance to seek an emergency appeal.
President Donald Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016. Polls show Democrat Joe Biden with a slight lead, but both sides are expecting another tight race. Biden wrapped up a campaign stop in northeast Wisconsin about an hour before the ruling was released. Trump held a rally in the state last week.
The Republican National Committee, the Wisconsin GOP and Wisconsin’s Republican legislators argued that current absentee voting regulations should be left in place, saying people have plenty of time to obtain ballots and get them back to clerks by Election Day.
The Democratic National Committee, the state Democratic Party and groups including the League of Women Voters and Disability Rights Wisconsin filed a series of lawsuits to make absentee voting and registration easier so people won’t have to go to the polls and risk catching the coronavirus.
Conley, an appointee of former President Barack Obama...
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I’m pretty sure that here in California they take weeks after the election to count absentee ballots. Sometimes they just give up if the race has been decided and the ballots won’t make a difference.
Fill the seat, fill the seat!
3rd world country in elections? Gee, why stop there...
Holy S a Federal Judge. The Wi SC is R so this Federal hack moves in. is there time for a higher to smack this punk down?
They have been doing the Republican congresscritters’ job for them for a while so they might as well and they get results!
agree- would like to see some fighting back.
The Left sure is good at JUDGE SHOPPING!!
File an appeal. NOW!
That’s what happened in South Dakota between tim johnson and John Thune.
Davison county had a computer clitch.
Held their total up till 3am
Pennington county published their total and Shannon county had the amount of votes they needed to manufacture
Geoffrey Holder (terrible as AG but not bad in the Bond movie Live and Let Die) orchestrated this in the federal district court because he knew if you bring it in Wisconsin courts the state’s Supreme Court is 4-3 Republican. I agree, I would be amazed if the 7th Circuit which is overwhelmingly Republican (four Trump appointees, including Amy Barrett, out of 11 active judges; another three from our President Reagan; 2 from the Bush family appointees). I suspect the 7th Circuit will stick this case where it belongs, in the garbage can.
Now, a number of states are extending those deadlines, so ballots only need to be postmarked by Election Day, instead of received by Election Day, which is currently the law in most places.
But the changes have given rise to a new problem. Thousands of mail-in ballots routinely arrive without a postmark or one that isn't legible, and election officials have to decide whether to count those ballots and under what circumstances.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903490612/another-post-office-election-challenge-makings-sure-ballots-are-postmarked
So Judge now the Libs have six days to make fake ballots!
Democrats have refused to concede on election night in 3 of the last 3 Republican presidential victories.
They are going for number 4, no doubt.
And they seek to manufacture enough ballots to win an alleged Al Franken “victory”. They’ve been practicing their legal arguments for years now.
In Pennsylvania they don’t even need a postmark.
We could try to come up to the high level of the Arab Spring voter verification----a finger painted to show one time vote only. But how about noncitizens?
And now all the mail-in votes which a Dem judge will someday rule are ok to wait to count on Christmas Eve along with kids watching for Santa bulletins. Santa and Joe Biden's miraculous victory over Trump will happen on the same night. Biden's "helpers" will finish writing the phony mail-in ballots and get writer's cramp but get to the finish line just as Soros paid them to do. And he left cookies and milk for them. Biden wins.
This is insanity. Judges changing election laws.
At least, unlike PA, they require the postmark.
Can post marks be counterfeit?
Pres. Trump needs to put election monitors in post offices to deter fraud by members of the union that backs SloJoe. It can’t be that hard to keep an old post mark stamp hidden.
If you have people there willing to do it, yep
But they could also put the postmarks on the actual day, but on fake ballots
And of course they can dump and destroy real ballots
Theres more than one thing that can be cheated on
Yes, based on Bush v. Gore AND the Constitution it is the job of the State Legislature to set law.
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