No, the Supreme Court said any vote cast after election day is illegal. Votes cast on or before election day are counted after election day in virtually every state.
No, the Supreme Court said any vote cast after election day is illegal. Votes cast on or before election day are counted after election day in virtually every state.
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No, that is NOT what they said.
You didn't listen to their oral argument, nor read their decision.
What they said was, the federal election is a SINGLE day. That the election can't be canvassed for days or weeks on end. It must be consummated on "the day." That it must occur uniformly, throughout the U.S., on a given DAY in November.
The very reason why we have the Presidential Election Day Act is because from 1787 until 1844, Congress allowed individual states to select election dates. The result was a patchwork of elections held at different times.
Knowledge of voting results in early voting states could affect voter turnout. In a close election, later voting states and last-minute voters had the power to to sway the outcome of the entire election. The large window to conduct and canvass elections across the states also enabled voter fraud (as we clearly saw last November).
The Presidential election of 1944 was the last straw. It lasted for weeks (November 1 – December 4, 1844), and there were rampant accusations of vote fraud. [1][2]
Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 was born and from the 1848 Presidential election till today, we have a SINGLE federal election DAY when the results must be finished (save for an official state sanctioned recount).
The clear fact remains, the 2020 Presidential Election was NOT consummated, it was NOT finished, it was NOT decided on Election Day as required by law and and decided by a unanimous Supreme Court decision.
President Trump was the winner on election day.