Posted on 10/01/2020 12:08:34 AM PDT by weston
Cats are kind of like me, thinking I can fit into a size 8. LOL
RSBN already has 25,000 viewer watching the crowd
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-oks-extension-of-ballot-counting-in-minnesota/
Federal Judge OKs Extension of Ballot Counting in Minnesota
October 12, 2020
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — A federal judge upheld Minnesota’s extended vote-counting timeline Sunday night, denying Republicans’ request for an injunction disqualifying mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
A pair of Republican electors had argued that Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon exceeded his authority and violated federal law mandating a Nov. 3 election by announcing that his office would accept ballots for up to a week later if they are postmarked by Election Day. But U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel, appointed by President Donald Trump, found that the electors lacked standing.
Simon had pushed back the deadline as part of an August consent decree with the Minnesota Alliance for Retired Americans, which a state court judge approved, but a federal court rejected. Republican presidential electors James Carson and Eric Lucero challenged that consent decree late in September, arguing that the agreement would cause “widespread and severe vote dilution,” and could even cast Minnesota’s election results into doubt.
Brasel dismissed those concerns, noting that presidential electors are scheduled to meet on Dec. 14 this year and that an extension of vote counting would not prevent Carson, Lucero or any other electors from representing the state at the Electoral College. Their concerns that absentee ballots counted after Election Day would dilute the value of their own votes, she wrote, did not give them standing because any such dilution would affect all Minnesota voters equally.
The judge also found that the abundant information publicly distributed to voters prevented the electors from using voter confusion as an injury supporting standing.
“In reality, the electors are in danger of creating confusion rather than avoiding,” Brasel wrote. Widespread reporting of the new deadline and its requirement that ballots still be postmarked by Election Day, Brasel wrote, is “a difficult genie to put back in the lamp. Giving Minnesota voters conflicting messages after they have received their absentee ballots would certainly cause some of those voters uncertainty and confusion.”
Brasel also dismissed the electors’ concerns that the consent decree would jeopardize Minnesota’s ability to meet the Electoral College’s Dec. 8 “safe harbor” deadline, which allows states about a month after the election to settle any controversies over electors or electoral votes. Those concerns, she wrote, are “unsupported by any factual allegations,” and the consent decree was designed to ensure those deadlines would be met.
“In the implausible event that Minnesota fails to meet the safe harbor deadline,” the judge wrote, “there are no allegations supporting the notion that it would lose its representation in the Electoral College.”
She added, “To suppose that Congress would make such findings requires a good deal of speculation; to further suppose that Congress would make these findings because of Secretary Simon’s actions here requires even more.”
The electors have already entered notice of their appeal to the St. Louis-based Eighth Circuit.
Neither the Minnesota GOP, which intervened in the case, nor Lucero, who also serves in the state House of Representatives for a district in the northwestern Twin Cities metro, responded to a request for comment.
Simon’s thoughts on the ruling were brief.
“We are grateful that the court’s decision left intact the rules that have been agreed upon for the upcoming general election,” the secretary said in a statement.
Raleigh Levine, a professor at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, said the judge’s standing decision made sense. Vote dilution, a concept derived from gerrymandering and voter suppression cases, is difficult to apply to this case.
“It is really difficult to envision a set of circumstances that would result in somebody’s vote not being counted or being improperly diluted because other votes are counted,” she said. “Because the decision applies to everybody, it doesn’t privilege particular people or disadvantage particular people.”
Levine also said she appreciated that Brasel had considered the Supreme Court’s doctrine in Purcell v. Gonzalez, which advises federal courts against changing election rules too close to the date of an election.
“It is important in cases like this, filed so close to the election, that federal courts be cognizant of the effect that their decisions will have on the states,” Levine said. “The issue with all of these cases is that there’s just a few weeks now left before the election, and decisions that change the status quo are going to have a hugely disenfranchising effect on voters who are relying on the information that they’ve already gotten.”
I remember when listening and discussing different thoughts was welcome, and we were encouraged to make our own conclusions.
It’s not who I trust, that wasn’t my question.
Subject: In Town Pool Report #4 — motorcade to JBA
Pool is loaded into vans to motorcade to Joint Base Andrews because of a bad weather call and awaiting departure.
“What the hell happened to the curiosity in people???”
When you dumb kids down, they don’t even know how to think. One part in 1984 had a committee removing words from the peoples for cabulary. If people didn’t have the words to express them self then they likely wouldn’t be starting a revolt. Liberals in education have pretty much done this.
Subject: In Town Pool Report #5 — Rolling to JBA
POTUS left the Oval Office at 4:08 pm and the motorcade left the White House at 4:10 headed to JBA. —
Jim Puzzanghera
When you need to read a thread on Twitter pic.twitter.com/DqugGhq1i5— 𝓐𝓼𝓱 (@Ash_2040) October 12, 2020
LOL
“Well, Biden did say he was running for the Senate today.....”
OMG, he didn’t! Funniest election ever. Sorry I missed that, but I’ve been busy pouring water on my counters and putting bits of salami and cheese on the floor and bruising my right shoulder with everything I can find. I don’t know how people with one eye handle the lack of peripheral vision. I’m so glad my doctor was considerate and let me have the surgeries one week apart.
There are mountains there, but the mountains don’t have any town to speak of. The highest elevation of a good sized town is Benque Viejo del Carmen at 423 ft. It has a population of around 7000 and is right beside the border of Guatemala.
I don’t have an issue with heat and humidity—I live in the South! Not sure how to explain it; I’ve just never been a person who enjoys that lifestyle. I’ve never been to Florida except when I was driving a semi, I’ve never been on a cruise, never been to Mexico...and never had a desire to. If I were to go to the beach, I would pick Maine or Michigan over Florida. And if I stay in the US when I retire, my choice is Wyoming!
That one still makes me laugh every time I see it.
I completely surrender, but ain't gonna open my eyes pic.twitter.com/X9KYCwv1Nv— 𝓐𝓼𝓱 (@Ash_2040) October 11, 2020
That’s what I was trying to say in a previous post. At my age, I don’t need maternity or pediatric care, don’t need addiction care. I covered maternity and pediatric care when I needed it, and didn’t demand that older folks pay for it.
Can’t get homeowners insurance when it’s on fire. But if preexisting conditions need to be covered, put those people in a separate risk pool, and subsidize that only. Cheaper than ACA. And pregnancy isn’t a preexisting condition in my opinion, but I guess it’s better paying for that than paying for abortion.
That is COOL!
Get one of those monitors & ditch all the Walmart reading glasses!
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