Posted on 12/15/2020 4:59:52 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday that public health restrictions amid the CCP virus pandemic are not valid reasons for people to vote absentee without showing an ID.
Under Wisconsin’s election law, a voter may declare him- or herself “indefinitely confined” because of age, physical illness, or infirmity—a status that allows one to submit an absentee ballot application without providing a photo ID. In a March 25 statement on his Facebook, Dane County clerk Scott McDonell encouraged “all voters who request a ballot and have trouble presenting a valid ID” to “indicate as needed that they are indefinitely confined due to illness.”
“This declaration will make it easier for Dane County voters to participate in this election by mail in these difficult times,” McDonell said, citing Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order.
The Wisconsin Republican Party promptly sued McDonell for his message, arguing that the action suggested was abuse of the indefinitely confined status as a means to bypass voter ID requirements. The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices have ordered the clerk rescinded the statement.
In its final decision (pdf) on Monday, the court sided with the state Republican Party, saying that whether to declare oneself indefinitely confined is up to individual voters, not county clerks or anyone else. The justices also ruled that the governor’s stay-at-home order doesn’t mean everyone is indefinitely confined.
“The plain language of (Wisconsin’s election law) requires that each elector make an individual assessment to determine whether he or she qualifies as indefinitely confined or disabled for an indefinite period,” Chief Justice Patience Roggensack wrote in the majority opinion. “A county clerk may not ‘declare’ that any elector is indefinitely confined due to a pandemic.”
In addition, the court ruled that votes could not count for those who falsely claimed the status of indefinitely confinement.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
“In another ruling released on Monday, the court rejected President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to throw out over 220,000 ballots cast in Dane and Milwaukee counties, including 28,000 ballots cast by voters who said they were indefinitely confined. One of the reasons for the rejection was that the case was raised too late.
Conservative-leaning Justice Brian Hagedorn, who joined three liberal justices to form a majority, also wrote in the court’s opinion, “The challenge to the indefinitely confined voter ballots is meritless on its face.”
And some of the faux conservatives here tried to make people believe that this got thrown out as well.
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But I read there are more than enough of these illegal ballots to give the election to DJT ... if they do a recount
So how are they going to apply this?
In addition, the court ruled that votes could not count for those who falsely claimed the status of indefinitely confinement.
So what does it DO?
The same corrupt folks who said it didn’t matter are now going to judge each claim as valid or not?
Stuff has to happen and happen fast...they can slow walk this right past 1-20.
My guess is going forward. Not retro and no recount. They should have to recount. But they will now say that it’s to late since electoral has met. They simply run the clock out. Was there plan the whole time. A crock of BS. The SCOTUS had a chance to do something about this and won’t touch it. Everything we try now is a Hail Mary. The proof about the dominion machines should be huge breaking news that a judge should give rights to check all of them but notice the courts kept the info sealed until after the electoral meeting. They think the clock had run out.
A little sanity, but too little, too late I fear.
Sunday I was at a Safeway shopping. Among my weekly groceries, I had a bottle of Chardonay. The checker asked to see ID.
I only carried my Bank card and said, I am sorry I don’t have it, in my car. I also said come on... I am 57.
She said, sorry we ID everyone.
Maybe if I mentioned Covid-19, I wonder if I could have passed on through... :)
That's happened to me plenty. The last time it happened was at a convenience store. I handed the guy behind me a 20 and asked if he would mind purchasing it. He said sure, and when we got outside he handed me the bottle. Pissed the cashier off but who cares.
“It wasn’t legal so please don’t do it going forward”
Its like a judge saying rape is illegal. Please dont do it going forward.
NO THAT COURT DID NOT RULE WITH COVID ID’S ARE REQUIRED. UNDER COVID NO ID RULING STILL STANDS. WHAT THEIR RULING WAS TRUMP CHALLENGE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE BEFORE ELECTION
My my my now the election is over many state Supreme Courts are getting chatty aka smooth the cover up.
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