Posted on 09/18/2020 6:30:32 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A Michigan court decision that will extend the deadline for postmarked mail-in ballots to be received up to 14 days after Election Day will also allow ballots to be submitted by third parties — a practice called “ballot harvesting” — during a specific period.
As Breitbart News reported earlier Friday, Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens ruled that mail-in ballots postmarked by November 2 — the day before Election Day — will still be counted in Michigan in the 2020 election.
In addition, Judge Stephens said that strangers can return other people’s ballots — normally a felony — between 5:01 p.m. on Friday, October 30, and 8:00 p.m. on November 3, the moment that polling places are supposed to close on Election Day.
Judge Stephens wrote:
This court enjoins MCL 168.932(f) in this election from 5:00 p.m. Friday October 30, 2020 until the close of the polls on November 3, 2020, in so far as it limits the class of persons who may render an absent voter assistance. As a result, a voter casting an absent voter ballot in the November 2020 general election may select any individual the voter chooses to render assistance in returning an absent voter ballot, but only for the limited time period when assistance from the clerk is not required, i.e., between 5:01 p.m. on the Friday before the election and the close of polls on Election Day.
The ruling means that anyone may return the ballot of another voter in that period of time, not just those specified by law (such as immediate family members).
Normally, a voter can seek assistance from the clerk until 5:00 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. The judge reasoned that the coronavirus pandemic, among other factors, made that an unconstitutional burden on absentee voters...
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Republicans can just harvest them too
How they can even change Election Day, how long elections last, with no restrictions whatsoever on getting and returning ballots.
America is becoming a banana republic.
Appeal it up to the MI SC.
These judges are usurping the powers of the Legislature, this needs to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. With RGB gone, this nonsense can be stopped.
Anything goes, I guess. As long a Democrat wins, the courts are fine with it.
Nursing home harvesting for example. The rats are going to assist and collect ballots from people who can’t even tell time.
They’ve been doing that for decades
Graveyards too
It is absolutely appalling, and an invitation to complete corruption of the elections, to allow ballots into the hands of third parties before they are submitted to election officials.
Becoming?
It already is.
Mark Levin says these judges do not have the power to rule on an election in that fashion — it is up to the state legislatures — and can trigger Federal judiciary intervention.
2020: STOLEN ELECTION.
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yep. notice it’s PA, WI, and MI that are doing this?
the blue wall Trump knocked down last time.
The left are utter demons.
This covid is being used to whatever these radicals can get by with!
So beyond crazy!
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Yep the Marxists are ruling us from top to bottom. Here we thought we had people in office who were on our side!
I thought it was the Michigan Supreme court that made the decision No?
“Nursing home harvesting for example. “
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They’ve been doing that for years. My very conservative Dad, in a memory care facility, voted for Obama.
Is there any push back by Republicans?
Article says, “Michigan Court of Claims Judge” Cynthia Stephens.
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