Posted on 12/16/2020 10:01:40 AM PST by RightGeek
As in-person early voting began Monday for the January 5 run off election for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, significant changes for absentee ballot signature verification and drop boxes put into place by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the State Election Board ahead of the November 3 presidential election without the state legislature’s approval are still in place.
Local county registrars began mailing approved absentee ballots to voters for the January 5 run off elections more than three weeks ago on November 18, according to Georgia’s election calendar.
Neither (1) the use of drop boxes for voters to deposit absentee ballots nor (2) the current method of absentee ballot signature verification have been authorized by the Georgia General Assembly.
(1) The use of drop boxes for voters to deposit absentee ballots has not been authorized by the Georgia General Assembly
Mail or personal delivery are the only two ways that Georgia lawmakers have clearly specified in O.C.G.A. 21-2-385 that electors are to get their absentee ballots to the registrar or absentee ballot clerk.
There are no provisions in the current Georgia code made by state legislators – who have the sole constitutional responsibility for setting election procedures as stated in Article II Section I, Paragraph I of the Constitution of the State of Georgia – for drop boxes or any other manner in which absentee ballots can be returned to the registrar other than mail or in-person delivery.
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More details on 2) at the link
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Hes as DIRTY as a DEMOCRAT!
The Gov’s,daughter’s boyfriend certainly did...
Added drop boxes preloaded with Dem votes. Just trying to help the folks.
SCOTUS already ruled “nobody’s business what the states choose to do”.
This is silly, all election “laws” are merely suggestions and do not need to followed in any way.
There is clearly only one rule in elections, based on what happens in real life elections, and that is do anything and everything you can think of to have a higher tabulation at the end of the counting process, whenever that is.
SOMEONE in the legislature needs to sue in both state and federal court - this violates GA law and the Constitution.
It’s already fix and the judicial arm of the government does not care. Sad state of affairs.
Just like Roberts insisting that Obamacare was a tax. Well, that still makes it unconstitutional because it originated in the Senate, not the House.
But they didn't care, that was the ruling they needed, so that was the ruling they got.
“The entire remedy is with the people.” - William Henry Harrison
They only ruled Texas did not have standing, and in part that was due to it being more of a generalized grievance which must be heard in a lower court first.
BUT... this is interesting only because this is a Georgia news site describing that the law permitting the drop boxes expired 5 days before the election. That means that anybody on the ballot should have standing to file within Georgia.
This is the first time I am seeing this... about the law expiring 5 days before the election. That could be interesting for losing democrat, republican, or independent.
My understanding is they were established by a consent decree. A judge had to agree.
There is a recent suit on this in state court.
So why even bellyache about it? What does it really matter. A bunch of election laws were already broken on Nov. 3rd with no repercussions. Just like children, if there are no repercussions for bad behavior, they will up the game.
It is obvious that the SCOTUS decision (as many here said) prior to the election gave the green light to the “steal”.
Change that one decision and uphold the law and constitution and we are having a different discussion.
Right. That is another aspect. But if the law allowing the drop boxes expired, that is a weird twist.
Has the GA legislature (controlled by Republicans) taken ANY action to stop the end around of their authority? They seem utterly impotent.
People seem to think SCOTUS ruled on the cases submitted to it. SCOTUS did not rule on the case but gave a technicality ruling to dismiss the case before it was heard. A “no standing” does not mean that the case was not credible, it means that the plaintiffs (those that filed the case) did not have the right (aka injury to the plaintiff) to bring that particular case to that court. SCOTUS never heard the case to adjudicate it. The case was thrown out because of a technicality - lack of standing. Big difference. BTW unless I have missed it the PA case is still on the docket although the injunctive relief (to stop the certification process from happening) was still on the docket last time I checked.
Can’t the Legislature just Pass a Law or something and VOID the Election in it’s entirety and notify congress of the official substitution of electors??
I think it’s now been firmly established that despite whatever Article II of the Constitution says, election laws can be made up on the fly by the Executive branch.
Ain’t a living constitution great?
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