California Republicans Drop Suits Against Governor’s Plan To Send Mail Ballots

sfchronicle.com ^ | July 11, | John Wildermuth

[truthkeeper]

Three Republican lawsuits seeking to block Gov. Gavin Newsom from sending mail ballots to every active California voter this fall through an executive order have disappeared, victims of a Democratic bill that the governor has signed into law.

In the past few days, legal challenges to the governor’s May 8 executive order by the Republican National Committee and the California Republican Party, San Diego-area congressional candidate Darrell Issa, and a pair of GOP assemblymen have all been dropped or tossed out of court.

In all three suits, Republicans charged that Newsom’s powers under his coronavirus pandemic emergency declaration in March didn’t give him the right to unilaterally make changes in state election rules.

Republicans described Newsom’s action as “a brazen power grab,” with Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the national committee, arguing in May that Democrats “continue to use this pandemic as a ploy to implement their partisan election agenda.”

In his order, Newsom said he will “continue to work with the Legislature and the Secretary of State” to put together final rules for the election...

[Secret Agent Man]

no one sane wants a cwii

but looking at things it is inevitable

you cannot compromise with socialists

ie

you can’t compromise with those that are uncompromisable

besides all it does it get them what it wants, more slowly

[LouAvul]

"War" might break out if the liberals lose. But if conservatives lose, we'll do what we always do, viz. Stay behind our computer and talk about what we'll do if they cross "another" line in the sand.

[LouAvul]

It (GOP) hasn’t been “outlawed.” It’s just that the armpits of kommifornia (San Fran, LA, Sac) control the state with liberal votes. Conservative’s votes in state and national elections are meaningless because of it.

[lowbridge]

“California Republicans”

What’s that?

[Karl Spooner]

The republicans are afraid they might win.

[Flavious_Maximus]

“every active California voter”

Notice they don’t use the words “every registered California citizen”.

When they say “Voter” it means illegal aliens.

[Agamemnon]

Strategy: How Trump may preserve and protect the Federal Election process in 2020 and beyond

October surprise:

President Trump issues an E.O. requiring Voter ID for Federal Elections. There's the instant end to all the Mail-in ballot non-sense.

Next, post at least one armed, National Guard member in full gear at every polling place in the US and have an ICE Agent on call. Protection of all voters is therefore assured. (e.g., No more Blank Panthers with clubs at Philadelphia polling places)

Issuing such an E.O. like this would cause Dems to judge shop and impose an injunction, but President Trump would ram it straight up the USSC on an emergency hearing, due to the shortness of time before the election.

It might actually be law right now (I am not a lawyer), but have President Trump declare that all polling places involved in Federal elections are surrogate Federal facilities, for the time of polling, because they are handling Federal documentation for a Federal election, where Federal Electors are selected per Article 12, as you note.

An official government issued ID will be required to enter the surrogate Federal facility for the time that ballots remain at the polling location. This is literally Voter ID. After the polls close, the ballots are remanded to Federal custody, and ferried to a Federally secured location accompanied by the National Guard member(s) already stationed at the polling place.

Since the USSC building and Federal polling places are each deemed to be Federal facilities under the protection and control of routine Federal facility access practices, there would be a seamless solution to which USSC could not object either conceptually and legally.

The USSC would have to acknowledge that entry to the USSC requires a Federal ID as does entrance to every other Federal Building.

Federal Property Law and Legal Definition:

“20 USCS § 107e defines “federal property” as any building, land, or other real property owned, leased, or occupied by any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States (including the Department of Defense and the United States Postal Service), or any other instrumentality wholly owned by the United States, or by any department or agency of the District of Columbia or any territory or possession of the United States.”

Theory: Could polling places used in Federal Elections be considered to be “occupied” by “department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States,” such as the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, for instance?

The Civil Rights Division of DOJ is vested with assuring that the voting rights of citizens are upheld, and it is the division to which voting right civil rights complaints may be filed. In essence the DOJ would supervise a Federal election as it deputizes the polling place for temporarily housing a division of local Civil Rights Division units of the DOJ.

Thoughts?

FReegards!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“ We have a nation wide mail-in vote for the 2020 Presidential election and all civil war hell is going to break loose as both sides claim the other side cheated, bet.”

Well, in the long run, only billions upon billions of bullets are going to solve the problem of Soviet America anyhow, so maybe we can just get with it.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“President Trump issues an E.O. requiring Voter ID for Federal Elections.“

The very next day a district judge in Hawaii stays the order.

You can’t solve by political or legal maneuvers what requires revolution by force.

“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...”

[mass55th]

"Next, post at least one armed, National Guard member..."

Need at least two, so that there is coverage for toilet breaks, lunch.

[nhbob1]

I wonder what the Democrats will be paying people for their ballots. Do they even need to be signed?

[5th MEB]

Then these pussy peckerwoods wonder why I won’t send them any money!

[newfreep]

Leftists view the Constitution as a document of suggestions.

“We don’t need no steenking Constitution”

[hanamizu]

I don’t see the language in the 12th that invalidates winner takes all. The states are free to allocate their Electors any way they wish. There is no Constitutional requirement for a vote for the people to assign Electors, although all states have seen fit to do it.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a system where the popular vote winner in each Congressional District, is awarded one Elector and the winner of the states’ popular vote two Electors. But I see dems only agreeing to it for heavily red states while their strongholds remain winner-takes-all. It’s how they roll.

[MayflowerMadam]

Well put.