Posted on 09/08/2020 4:46:08 AM PDT by karpov
Georgia’s voting deadline is unambiguous: Absentee ballots are due when the polls close on Election Day. Late arrivals are meant to be set aside, stored, and eventually destroyed without being opened. That’s what state law says, and the way to protect democratic legitimacy in an anxious age is to run elections by the book.
But in the Twilight Zone of 2020, everything is apparently up for grabs. Last Monday a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that orders Georgia officials to count all ballots postmarked by Election Day, even if they don’t show up until three days later. The suit was filed by the New Georgia Project, a group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams. The judge expressed a reluctance to “interfere with Georgia’s statutory election machinery,” but she concluded that “the risk of disenfranchisement is great.”
Similar litigation is taking place across the country. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court last Tuesday accepted a lawsuit filed by the state Democratic Party, and officials suggested last month in a separate case that ballots be counted if they arrive by Nov. 6, even if the postmark is missing or illegible. In Ohio, the League of Women Voters is challenging the process for verifying signatures. Minnesota has waived its rule that absentee ballots must be signed by a witness, and the state Supreme Court is weighing an appeal of that suspension, brought by President Trump’s campaign.
If the presidential election is decided by a whisker, with Donald Trump or Joe Biden leading by some thousands of votes in a few states, a court ruling could prove decisive. The pivotal jurisdictions will be flooded with Republican and Democratic lawyers, and the resulting chaos could resemble the 2000 Florida recount, with smudged postmarks as the new hanging chads.
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No country in the world allows for universal mail-in ballots. This is crazy. People can go to a grocery store. They can go to the polls.
If judges choose our President, a shooting civil war is certain. Judges have unconstitutionally taken charge of the USA and the people will be forced to strip them of political power and throw them out.
:: If judges choose our President ::
A Constitutional impossibility.
Just cancel the dam thing, waste of resources anyway.
The whole country knows Buden has absolutely no real legal chance of winning.
Give it up, concede already, spare Americans the misery.
No, if neither candidate gets 270, then it goes to the HOR.
Trump will have 320 on election night. Even with late counting in PA, he’ll have more than enough. States have til Dec. 14 to certify their electors, meaning they can possibly count until then.
There is NO clear understanding of what happens if 270 are certified but that all states haven’t certified. There are two opinions:
1) You need only a quorum of 538. Trump wins.
2) Any states that don’t certify lose their vote. Trump wins.
vs.
3) You need all 538 present to select a president. No winner if some haven’t counted.
4) If this goes to the House, Trump wins (they count, according to the Constitution, by delegation, not members: Rs have 26 delegations). But in this scenario, the Senate must pick from the top two EC vote recipients (Biden and . . . it’s not clear if the veep now becomes a “EC vote recipient.”)
That Dec. 14 date, as best I can find, is NOT moveable. In Bush v. Gore, the USSC ruled that FL could not count past the date of submitting the electors, Dec. 12 of that year. This year it is Dec. 14.
Highly unlikely a USSC will overturn itself, particularly in a 20 year period.
If we pick up cd-2 in Maine, is it a 26-23 split in the house delegation vote?
It’s going to be a Trump landslide.
“The judge expressed a reluctance to “interfere with Georgia’s statutory election machinery,” but she concluded that “the risk of disenfranchisement is great.”
There is no disenfranchisement if the voter gets off his/her butt and mails the ballot in early enough to beat the deadline. Why continue to encourage laziness/stupidity?
“the League of Women Voters”
Another bad actor.
No. It’ll take a week or two but the votes will be counted and the electoral votes will be awarded. And well before the December meeting of the Electoral College.
Good question. I don’t know. Ask fieldmarshaldj
I moved to Florida. I found out I was still registered in GA. I have asked them unregister me.
Just in case.
NO count figures should be made known, publicly or privately, until ALL votes have been counted.
No.
THE NEWLY sworn in HOR. We MUST take the House.
Thank you
Yep
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