Posted on 08/04/2020 7:55:51 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A federal judge has ordered the New York Elections Board to count more than one thousand disqualified absentee ballots in the primary race between House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and challenger Suraj Patel.
It appears that the limited ruling will not be enough to impact the outcome of the race. The New York Times estimates the ruling will affect 1,200 ballots. Maloney leads Patel by about 3,700 votes.
Maloney declared victory in a statement and called on Patel to concede.
“Weeks ago I called for all of these ballots to be counted," Maloney said. “Although the number involved cannot possibly affect the outcome of my primary election, which I won by a significant margin, I am happy that voters in my district will have their votes counted notwithstanding the Postal Services mistake."
The outcome of the June 23 primary has still not been finalized more than six weeks after Election Day due to vote counting issues related to the surge in mail voting.
New York initially postponed its primary, before deciding late in the process to send absentee ballots to all voters.
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As I understand it, Nancy Pelosi would be acting President, until a President is chosen by the House of Representatives, if for some reason there is not a President chosen by January 20th. It’s not as if Nancy is then president for the full four year term of office.
Incomprehensible. Intolerable. If you intentionally screw up an election, you have broken the implied contract with those you govern, AKA consent of the governed. We have overlooked a lot. This stunt will NOT be overlooked.
That is not the way Laurence Tribe described it. I am not an expert on this matter. He described it as treating the election as “meaningless” if the President’s term expires and a new President has not been selected. Not my words - his.
I’m no expert either. Since this has never happened, there’s no precedent on how to proceed. Perhaps the constitution and laws are unclear about it, because the presumption is that eventually the House of Representatives will have chosen a president.
But if Laurence Tribe is right, then it would be a situation where Democrats in the House could just run out the clock until January 20th, and never choose a president, to allow one of their own, Pelosi, to become President.
Folks like Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, Tucker and Laura Ingraham need to be talking about this now. It sure would be an incentive to vote AGAINST the Rats in House races. President Pelosi would no doubt scare a lot of Democrats.
Judicial ballot harvesting.
Keep changing the rules until the right person wins.
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