Election lawsuits from both left and right are shaping the 2024 presidential election

Just the News ^ | 3/2/24 | Natalia Mittelstadt

[CFW]

Arecent Delaware court decision shows that election lawsuits being brought by plaintiffs on both the left and right sides of the political aisle that will have significant impact on the 2024 presidential election in November.

Several cases are going before courts this year regarding election statutes, procedures, and candidates as advocates across the political spectrum seek to shape the rules that guide elections. While one such case was decided last week, several others are still ongoing.

The Delaware Superior Court ruled Friday that a 2019 law passed by the state legislature, which allows early voting up to 10 days before "election day" violates the state constitution. The court held that the General Election is to be held on one day.

The court also found that the state's Permanent Absentee Voting Statute violates state law by allowing voters to be placed on a permanent absentee voting list where ballots would automatically be sent to them for each election. The voting laws were challenged in court by the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

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In Pennsylvania State Conference of the NAACP v. Chapman, the plaintiff sued the then-acting secretary of the commonwealth in 2022 regarding Pennsylvania’s decision to void mail-in ballots that are either missing a date on the outer return envelopes or have an incorrect date.

Pennsylvania counties were ordered by a lower court following a Republican lawsuit in 2022 to reject undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots. However, the issue is still being litigated and has reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

The NAACP argues that the mail-in ballots are valid – regardless of the incorrect or missing date – and should be counted.

[CFW]

Interesting ruling out of Delaware. This is a point many of us have brought up before. Laws do not provide for an election "month" but instead for an election "day". Other nations do it in one day and it is ridiculous that we have voting in some states as early as two months before election "day" and continuing for a week after that day.

Democrats will probably wait until shortly before the election and implement new voting rules in many states. The short time frame will give the GOP little time to file suit and stop those rules from being implemented. Leftist judges will probably rule that the GOP has no standing or that a law is not ripe yet for litigation since no harm has done.

Afterwards, they will rule it is moot since the election has already been held. The Democrats play hard ball and the GOP is seldom ready for it.

[CFW]

From the article:

“According to an election integrity watchdog, some election lawsuits can disrupt election administration. Jason Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, said last month that “One of the biggest threats that we’re gonna face between now and November is gonna be just a torrent of left-wing litigation.” He said “We saw the chaos, we saw the confusion, we saw the rules changes that [Marc] Elias and his operation were able to impose on states through the litigation process of 2020. And they’re already starting that up again this year.”

“I think litigation is gonna be one of the big, big threats because you can go into the November election with the best laws on the books, but if those laws are gutted in your courts, if those laws are gutted through consent agreements between a Democrat suing a Democrat, then that law is not worth the paper that it’s written on,” Snead said. “

[metmom]

Imagine that.

Insisting on honest elections might *shape* the presidential election.

How far we’ve fallen.

[antidemoncrat]

“election lawsuits being brought by plaintiffs on both the left and right sides of the political aisle”

The only reasons I can think of as to why Democrats would file lawsuits is that they don’t watch folks watching drop boxes 24/7, they want to be able to find boxes full of absentee ballots hidden under tables in polling places overnight and don’t want to explain how thousands of votes suddenly appear for their candidate in the middle of the night.

[ridesthemiles]

SMART ENOUGH TO VOTE-—BUT DO NOT KNOW THE CORRECT DATE WHEN YOU SIGN THE ENVELOPE??????

YOU ACTUALLY WANT ME TO BUY THAT?????

[metmom]

Really.......