Posted on 10/27/2020 12:42:06 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
Raleigh, N.C. — Judge Amy Coney Barrett is expected to be sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court justice shortly after the U.S. Senate confirms her nomination on Monday night, and a North Carolina case could be among the first before the court with her as a member.
Absentee ballots have been the focus of a fierce legal fight in North Carolina for weeks, following the State Board of Elections' decision to try to settle some lawsuits by changing the rules for voting by mail. While courts have dealt with the problem of fixing ballots that were mailed without the required witness signature, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn't act on a delayed deadline for accepting mailed ballots.
Under state law, an absentee ballot must be postmarked by Election Day and received within three days after that – Nov. 6 this year – to count. But the state board agreed to push that deadline back to Nov. 12 after voting rights groups argued that an avalanche of mailed ballots this year could lead to slower deliveries by the U.S. Postal Service.
Republican state lawmakers have intervened in the lawsuit and asked the Supreme Court to rule on it.
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The 4-4 Supreme Court tie in the PA case (thanks to Judas Roberts) that upholds the state court decision allowing massive Democrat vote fraud may come back to the court - if the Supreme Court allows it.
Biden has spent big money in PA. Trump had 3 rallies there yesterday alone.
In PA it was based on a court decision.
But the law and the Constitution specifies “the Legislature.”
It ought to be open and shut.
Is USPS really that incompetent that they can’t make a 3-day deadline for ballots postmarked Nov. 3?
Its not incompetence per se but yes it CAN take longer than 3 days to deliver something. Ballot envelopes are not going to get any special handling en route. They may get that by the carrier from the final station to the election office.
Still, the law says 3 days...a commission can’t just change it no matter if all agree or not.
We want election law reform ASAP.
Voter ID
I have been getting between 5 and 10 pieces of campaign mail per day for about 6 weeks. Most are large cardboard
“post cards” and are bigger than absentee ballots.
Given the ease (and happy profit) that the USPS is showing with this surge of mail, I cannot imagine the remaining, last day ballot mailings will make a tiny dent in the USPS traffic flow.
right ... lol
Amen on the Voter ID.
But NC Legislature passed Voter ID (twice I think) and it was struck down in the courts....I think the Supreme Court let stand a ruling by a lower court that said voter ID was vote suppression......so the voters of NC are left out to dry as far as voter Id is concerned.
Good point!
Yup,the National Letter Carriers’ Union has endorsed the Harris/Biden ticket and we can be damn sure that top Post Office executives have too.
It’s not the voter that matters, it’s the person who counts the votes.
Or the mail carrier that is supposed to take them to be counted!
New meaning to “Going Postal.”
I remember (not so long ago) when the Post Master General stated that the Post Office could handle mail in ballots. Now voting rights group are saying they can’t.
“What kind of clown arranges things in that manner?”
The USPS.
Yes! I pray so - I pray she is another Scalia or Thomas!
It kinda violates the sovereignty of the state legislature clause. The Board of Elections cannot change or establish law through a settlement agreement.
The sorting machines are used for carrier route sorting. Those create a bundle for each customer and arrange them in order in a box. The more carrier routes that are sorted in a central location, the more efficient the system is. Here in rural Virginia they used to sort manually at each post office. Now those people are gone and they sort at a very large post office near DC. Then the sorted mail is sent back to each rural post office.
You'll probably notice that there are longer "local" and "out of town" slots. That's the reason.
They may get to the sorting facility faster, but it's usually just one day. They may get to the election office faster or it might take the same which could be a few days. I can get next day delivery from our central sorting office here in northern Virginia to my mailbox 60 miles away via my local post office. But not all the time. Sometimes up to 4 days.
Because they will have a better grasp of how many votes they need to manufacture to win.
Thought it was announced already,not to allow to be counted until the 12th
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