Posted on 10/28/2020 7:04:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Supreme Court late Wednesday ruled to allow absentee ballots received up to nine days after Election Day on Nov. 3 to be counted in North Carolina.
In what is regarded as a victory for Democrats, the 5-3 ruling means that the North Carolina’s Board of Elections decision to stretch the period from three to nine days for absentee ballot counting will stay. The ballots will counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
North Carolina a key battleground state.
The latest Supreme Court decision comes after the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Oct. 20 to uphold a deadline extension in the state for the receipt and counting of absentee ballots to nine days from three.
The Democratic-majority State Board of Elections’ decision to stretch the deadline to nine days was part of a legal settlement with a union-affiliated group—the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans—in late September. The legal settlement also loosened requirements for fixing absentee ballots that lacked a witness signature. The settlement said counties should have longer to accept ballots because of possible mail delays.
North Carolina Republicans earlier on Wednesday requested for the second time that the Supreme Court block the extended deadline. They sought to reinstate the three-day extension that North Carolina had set last June. Their petition (pdf) cited concurrences filed by Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch on Monday, when the court ruled against extending a deadline for absentee ballots in Wisconsin.
President Donald Trump’s campaign had filed a separate but similar appeal to the Supreme Court to block the extended deadline.
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“....I don’t mind.”
Post office is in charge of marking it
They can back date it if they want to
Or put dates on phony filled out ballots
“What should NOT happen is to open up the process of appointing Electors to ANY BRANCH of the Government at Washington.”
By far the best post I have read on this topic, thank you. It drives me up the wall how many so-called conservatives have let themselves be conned into accepting Judicial Supremecy, particularly the horrifying notion that the Supreme Court’s rulings could ever take precedence over laws passed by state legislators on that state’s election matters.
I have no problem with that. Who will be checking the postmarks on all late ballots?
You can bet those machines will be smoking and on fire before the turn them off for the night.
Which machines are you referring to?
NC case was 5-3, so both Kavanaugh and Roberts went to the dark side on that one. Barrett’s vote wouldn’t have made a difference. Hope it isn’t a sign of things to come. Kavanaugh is a bit squishy unfortunately.
Watch the Republican state legislatures.
They can back date it if they want to
Or put dates on phony filled out ballots
What is the likelihood of that happening in North Carolina?
May be a stupid question, but is it possible for PDJT to have enough EVs on 11/3 without NC’s numbers?
Much higher in urban area centers with high democrat populations.
Turns out, the October surprise is that the communists own the SCOTUS as well as the federal bureaucracy...
There will be a frantic effort now to add thousands more people to the groups in all those basements and storage rooms (in homes, liquor stores, drug stores, convenience stores, churches, schools, federal offices, mosques, and DNC offices) fabricating the necessary ballots to guarantee a communist victory
Who would have that the communists had an October ace-in-the-hole with which to deliver the election “kill shot”...
SCOTUS already owned by the communists...
Not as bad as it seems — they have to be postmarked by election day.
“The ballots will counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
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You can bet those machines will be smoking and on fire before the turn them off for the night.”
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You ignore the good number of corrupt union postal employees who will be running ballots through a cancelling machine AFTER Election Day but with a cancellation date of 11/3/2020 or earlier.
North Carolina actually count mail-in votes 2 weeks before Election Day. The ‘RATS have a very good idea of how many votes they need to manufacture.
Screw John Roberts!
They also need to someone watch the "vote-counters."
In other countries, they have people to monitor the election. Maybe we need that here--at every stage of the process.
You can bet those machines will be smoking and on fire before the turn them off for the night.
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Don’t need no stinking machines. What’s the odds of all “late” ballot envelopes being hand cancelled with the stamp used by the clerks at the counter...and all from the same or several locations...
Probably 100 locations.
I would like to agree with you, but in a war it’s the enemy who sets the terms of engagement, and the enemy’s terms is to use Federal Courts to stymie anything good for America, so that is the battlefield where we are compelled to drop our legal ordnance.
That’s what they don’t know. How many ballets they need.
Get ready for a real war.
“...but in a war it’s the enemy who sets the terms of engagement”
Sure, but in a war it’s the victor who decides the terms of their enemy’s surrender. Trump’s entire first term has been plagued with rogue Federal Judges making illegitimate rulings contrary to his policies and the law. By failing to reject these illegitimate rulings outright and rather depending on the Supreme Court to settle everything we have in effect agreed to our terms of surrender in advance.
It’s possible in both N.C. and Pennsylvania that Republican legislators will ultimately exercise their right to reject a fraudulent popular vote and determine which electors will be selected directly. If they do this the Supreme Court will have absolutely no authority in the matter, unless our side one again cedes it to them.
A settlement agreement between Democrats and other Democrats to rig the election.
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