[bigbob]

Yes indeed!

This is going to end up at Scotus and I don’t see how different states can allow votes to be counted under rules given the equal protection clause .

[silverleaf]

Because the States can make laws about their voting procedures

[hanamizu]

I don’t see how different states can allow votes to be counted under rules given the equal protection clause .

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The states are free to conduct elections as they wish. Although we all vote on election day, there isn’t one election, there are 51, each conducted under state rules. If California grants 16 year-olds the vote, they get to vote. States are limited in their voting rules by Amendments forbidding discrimination in voting by race, sex, age over 18, and charging to vote.

California’s voting rules have kept Republicans off of the ballot for U.S. Senate the last two elections.

[Steven Scharf]

This is going to end up at Scotus and I don’t see how different states can allow votes to be counted under rules given the equal protection clause .

Each state has different laws. Some states do allow ballots postmarked by election day to be counted. Apparently, Minnesota does not and that is why the 8th circuit slapped them down.

[alternatives?]

In 2000 Florida was counting counties different. The SC said that was not right but I think differences by state are ok.

[Jim Noble]

This is going to end up at Scotus and I don’t see how different states can allow votes to be counted under rules

Because State Legislatures have the sole sovereign power to appoint Electors, however they choose to, and they have chosen different rules.

Equal protection has nothing to do with it. There are no Presidential elections in the Constitution, therefore, there is no Constitutional right to vote for President to be protected by a Federal court, and therefore Bush v. Gore never should have been heard by SCOTUS in the first place.

[Bshaw]

The courts are holding states to their EXISTING election laws on the books, and are not allowing changes to be made DURING the election year, including changes allowed by state court decisions.

[Engedi]

I wish we had a NATIONAL deadline for all states not this, 6 days for this state, 17 days for this one, 4 for this one, 7 for this one.