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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Hopefully someone here files suit against this ruling.
6 days for democrats to destroy republican voter ballots and dump fake democrat ballots
WI works okay when repubs have the power, when democrats do it all goes 200% to shiite.
Based on Bush v. Gore, that’s changing established election law, and according to the Supreme Court, that is prohibited, because it’s the job of the State Legislature to set law.
They are just making shit up as they go.
We have truly become a third-world country when it comes to voting in national elections. How utterly embarrassing.
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and now Wisconsin with rulings like this.
Allows the perfect amount of time to see exactly what they need to come up with.
Morning of November 4, 2020, CWII goes hot.
Morning of November 4, 2020, CWII goes hot.
Morning of November 4, 2020, CWII goes hot.
We seem to be headed toward the never ending election until the Democrat Marxists win and then it is suddenly over forever more.
Another Obama judge. No surprise there. The fix is in.
Same with Pennsylvania. Extend voting to enable the DNC election stealing machine to truck enough warehoused fake ballots in to “win” after the constitutional election is over. Either the GOP stops this or there will be lots of blood in the streets — as horrible as any of that is, the D’s are pushing America to become another Beirut
people, you can stop this.
The counter fix is in too!
Why not just cancel the election and just hand Biden the keys to the WH. Never have I seen so many things being done to throw an election to one party over another.
So now early voting starts sometime in September and the election isn’t over until a week or two after election day. I’d be real happy to see us go back to everyone voting the second Tuesday of November. Show up and vote or forfeit your franchise.
“We have truly become a third-world country when it comes to voting in national elections.”
That’s the sole purpose of Obama judges.
Surely someone will file suit again these states for their blatant and attempted theft of a federal election!
They shouldn’t allow any vote counting until after the vote collecting is done
“Michigan, Pennsylvania, and now Wisconsin with rulings like this. Allows the perfect amount of time to see exactly what they need to come up with.”
Exactly.
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