Posted on 10/14/2020 6:51:35 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that absentee ballots in the presidential battleground state of North Carolina must have a witness signature, a boost for Republican groups seeking to enforce stricter rules on mail-in voting.
U.S. District Judge William Osteen in Greensboro issued an injunction essentially barring voters from being able to “fix” an absentee ballot they had already sent in if it lacked a third-party signature attesting that the voter, and not somebody else, signed the ballot.
The judge was reversing a previous directive by state officials that had allowed voters to remedy the lack of a witness signature by returning an affidavit verifying that it was their ballot.
Republican state Senator Phil Berger said in a statement: “Judge Osteen was right to stop the...elimination of the absentee ballot witness requirement.”
In his written ruling, the judge allowed voters to fix smaller problems with their ballots, for example if a witness signature was in the wrong place.
The Nov. 3 election promises to be the nation’s largest test of voting by mail due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, and Democrats and Republicans are locked in numerous lawsuits that will shape how millions of Americans vote this autumn.
North Carolina, which Republican President Donald Trump won by just 3.6 percentage points in 2016, is one of the most hotly contested battlegrounds in Trump’s contest with Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Trump has repeatedly and without evidence said that an increase in mail-in ballots would lead to a surge in fraud, although Americans have long voted by mail.
The Trump campaign and other Republican groups have been seeking to get courts to place restrictions on mail-in voting, while Biden’s team and Democrats have been fighting to remove obstacles to voting by mail.
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print a 1000 copies of the ruling, tear it into pieces, mix it with horse sh!t and Tabasco, and shove it down twitter’s throat
Quoting from the Federalist Society “... it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.”
Winnning@DonaldTRUMP!!
Hmm
So they get another person to lie and say they saw it
Witnessed “ballots” are so hard to concoct, is why.
Ballot verifiers would notice the same names on 100’s of ballots, in the same ink.
Outstanding!
Leftists are going to go crazy because they want to steal the election.
Can I get an Amen?
Isn’t there a judge in Hawaii who can overrule this? /s
So what happens to the absentee ballots that have already been turned in that dont have a signature?
So what happens to the absentee ballots that have already been turned in that dont have a signature?
Thought I read somewhere else that a new ballot has to be submitted.
NC recently relaxed the number of witnesses to 1. It used to be 2 before COVID.
So if a new ballot has to be filled out where is the original ballot is it destroyed? The democrats sure mucked up this election . Liberals ruin everything they touch.
The 2020 early voting period starts Thursday, Oct. 15, and ends Saturday, Oct. 31. Any registered voter or eligible individual in North Carolina may cast an absentee ballot in person during this time. This period is sometimes called “one-stop early voting.”
Individuals who are not registered to vote in a county may register at early voting sites during the early voting period. After registering, the newly registered voter can immediately vote at that same site. This process is called “same-day registration.”
https://www.ncsbe.gov/registering/how-register/register-person-during-early-voting
D’oh!
That information is related to early voting which is different from mail in absentee balloting.
Each county board of elections holds on to absentee ballots that don’t meet requirements. They are supposed to reach out to the voter in order to provide an opportunity to fix the ballot. In the case of a missing witness, a new ballot would have to be submitted.
Thank you
Another nail in Cal and Grandpa Groundhog’s coffins. Democrats need voter fraud like Dracula needs blood.
I remember signing many absentee ballots as the witnessing official for my soldiers when I was in Germany as a cav squadron and later brigade S-2.
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