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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I agree. I am behind the lines in CT and the GOP here is MIA. Time to take matters in hand.
That is okay as long as they are postmarked Nov 3, 2020!!!
All those Socal seats last time and Sinema counting an extra week in Arizona. Once the Dems have enough votes, they call it and the GOP sits down until the next election theft cycle.
I hope so, too.
you wrote:
just a cheerleader on the sidelines?
If that was directed at me, here’s my answer (from the trenches):
How to Defeat Mail-in-Voting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3857760/posts
How to Defeat Mail-in-Voting Part II
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3871759/posts
How To Defeat Mail-In-Voting Part III
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3882842/posts
See you at the polling place on Nov 3.
You cannot vote in person in NJ unless you are disabled. Anyone showing up at a polling station on Election day will still have to fill out the mail-in ballot. Then their ballot will be a ‘provisional’ ballot to be counted only of the election is close.
Our Skell Governor has dictated an end-run around the voter and pur state legislature is silent.
Yes. So ignore the judge and then start impeachment.
Justice Ginsberg was unavailable for comment...
Pennsylvaia did the same but 3 days, Michigan 14 DAYS
Well this would ensure that all ballots are treated the same like in Bush V Gore
Bkmk
Milwaukee and Dane County have been hotbeds of vote fraud since Bush43 beat Manbearpig. The rank fraud that year was only overshadowed (and completely unreported) while the msm fluffed each other over hanging chads.
Another Obama “judge”...
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