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 really can’t figure the logic on this one. Wow...
They have these next to each of the cash registers at the post office.
They are just rubber stamps, and they are easy to reproduce.
Democrats across the country probably have hundreds or thousands of them just for election fraud.
I think everyone has noticed by now, the longer the window
is open for voting, the more the democrats push to extend
it out even further.
I’m really worried now. I’ve been sure President Trump will win. But with these Supreme Court rulings, we know the Democrats will keep finding boxes of ballots until they have enough.
Looks like Kavanaugh trying to beat out Gorsuch for the role of Swing Vote, which was just vacated by Roberts with the death of RBG.
Mark Levin warned that Kavanaugh was “squishy”
Well one of them has to be very wrong.
OK I just figured that out. Voters already had 3 Days. Then it was extended an additional 6 Days. For a total of 9 days after the election.
No reason for panic attacks. Ballots must be postmarked on or before election day.
“The ballots will counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.”
It’s in the beginning of the article! So many freepers just can’t be bothered to read beyond the headline.
If that’s what state law says, then that is a correct ruling,even if we don’t like it.
And the law needs to be changed.
This is very depressing news.
Postmark can be changed by corrupt Postal Workers.
A Ballot Postmarked on Election Day can take nine days to arrive? Are we still using The Pony Express?
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