What was the final Supreme Court vote? Who was for, who was against?
It’s frustrating to read the news without them mentioning how the decision went. My guess is 5-4 AT BEST.
All I am reading from the mainstream press are these:
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, said reinstating the restriction is appropriate because it is supported by state election officials and could help avoid disruption that may accompany the lifting of the witness requirement just weeks away from the vote.
“For many years, this Court has repeatedly emphasized that federal courts ordinarily should not alter state election rules in the period close to an election,” Kavanaugh wrote.
The court’s more conservative members - Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch - would have gone further by requiring those who have already cast absentee ballots without a witness signature to vote again.
There were no noted dissents from the order.
Sorry, I should have said the vote would be 5-3 at best ( RBG is not there to do her damage anymore ).
I was right...
See here:
By a 5-3 vote, however, the court directed South Carolina to accept any absentee ballots returned through Wednesday without a witness signature. More than 150,000 absentee ballots already have been mailed to voters, according to court papers; some 7,891 ballots in South Carolina had been returned as of Oct. 1, according to data collected by the Associated Press.