Like it or not, each state can make their own rules, including making them up as they go along....which is the demo way. This is what you get with originalists.....they won’t legislate from the bench.
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That’s why Kavanaugh voted the way he did. The rules were decided by an election board for the state. It wasn’t a Judge overturning the legislators. It seems NC isn’t as bad as PA, even though they have a longer extended date.
NC had no mass mail out of ballots. Absentee ballots have to be postmarked by election day, signed and notarized.
NC had no mass mail out of ballots. Absentee ballots have to be postmarked by election day, signed and notarized.
If this is fact i’d feel a whole lot better.
Don't know about Roberts but Kavanaugh just may be playing a smart long game on this one, and one based in originalist thought and grounded in judicial restraint. .
The Constitution explicitly reserves voting to the states with very little restriction. as a result, the voting laws and the integrity of our voting system has really been eroded, especially in Democrat run states.
This erosion is so bad, some states are voting to undermine or abolish the electoral college system, which was a major check and balance construct of the original intent of drafters of the constitution.
The real argument for the Supreme Court is not to regulate the voting laws of the individual states as is petitioned by the Republicans at this point. Instead , the very real and much stronger argument is the equal protection clause argument that there must be sufficient uniformity and fairness under the laws that all Americans individual voting rights are fairly apportioned as spelled out under the Constitution.
This argument cannot be best made until there is a cause of action, which can only happen after November 3 when votes are being counted and actual voter are undergoing very real harm with consequential and irreparable damages . At that point the ability for the Supreme Court to act is much clearer and much more compelling.
So compelling, in fact, that, under the right circumstances, the Supreme Court ruling on the topic could be broad enough to require a Constitutional Amendment in order to abolish the Electoral College or to allow individual states to circumvent the Electoral College with the various ill conceived allocation of Electoral College electors via national vote majority of popular vote or by splitting electors via pro rata share of state vote percentages to each candidate as per Maine and Nebraska
The Supreme Court now has a working majority to force this type of originalist interpertaion. The opportunity may not present itself again in the near future and the chaos of this election could provide popular cover to make the necessary changes and nip in the bud our current descent into electoral anarchy and tyranny
YMMV, but I am optimistic
Witnessed and notarized too if so thats better.