Posted on 07/03/2021 4:07:16 AM PDT by John Semmens
By a vote of 6-3, the US Supreme Court overturned an appeals court decision invalidating Arizona's ban on ballot harvesting and the requirement that in-person voting must take place at the precinct where the voter is registered to vote. The majority opinion was written by Justice Samuel Alito who called the Arizona rules "appropriate measures for protecting election integrity."
Justice Elena Kagan sharply criticized the ruling in her dissenting opinion. "There can be no question that having any rules will filter out the votes of residents who do not follow those rules," she wrote. "Barring ballot harvesting will reduce the options for people who are too indifferent to make the effort to personally fill out and mail their own vote. Not everyone is as well informed and motivated as Justice Alito thinks they should be. Ballot harvesting allows others to intervene and assist voters to cast their ballots for the candidates who will best represent their interests. And the requirement that people must vote in the precinct in which they reside is just silly. Arizona's fixation on election integrity despite virtually unanimous agreement among experts that there is no evidence that election fraud affected the outcome of 2020 is simply a further demonstration of the systemic racism that has plagued America since 1619."
Alito addressed and rebutted Kagan's arguments, saying "Arizona's law allows anyone who wants to vote by mail to do so. There is a website https://azsos.gov/votebymail for voters to request either a permanent or a one-time vote-by-mail ballot. Those who choose to vote-by-mail are sent a ballot four weeks ahead of election day. This ballot is accompanied by instructions and a pre-addressed postage-paid return envelope. All the voter has to do is fill out the ballot, sign the envelope, and put it in his mail box. The postman will pick it up and deliver it so it can be counted in the appropriate precinct. There is no need for ballot harvesting. Similarly, voting in the correct precinct in-person is also easy. A voter information pamphlet is mailed to every registered voter's address. This pamphlet gives the location of the precinct where the voter should cast his ballot. A voter would have to go out of his way to end up at the wrong precinct."
In related news, the recent revelation that Carter Jones, a contractor hired by Georgia's secretary of state to monitor election counting in Fulton County, had forwarded a 29-page memo detailing massive election integrity failures to Brad Raffensperger in November of last year. These failures included double-counting of votes, insecure storage of ballots, violations of voter privacy, the mysterious removal of election materials at a vote collection warehouse, and the suspicious movement of too many ballots on Election Day. Raffensperger said "if I had seen this memo back then I would never have certified the election results. It seems that the 2020 election may not have been as clean as I thought it was."
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“... people who are too indifferent to make the effort to personally fill out and mail their own vote.”
Perhaps if you are too indifferent to mark a ballot and take it to a mail box maybe you ought not to be voting.
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