One of the few things Donald Trump and the Virus have made happen ….
U.S. voters have cast more than 47 million votes for the Nov. 3 presidential election, eclipsing total early voting from the 2016 election with 12 days to go, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Project.
Some 47.5 million Americans have turned in ballots, roughly eight times the number of early votes cast at about same point before the 2016 presidential contest, and above the 47.2 million early votes that were cast before Election Day in 2016.
The surge comes after many states have expanded mail-in voting and in-person early voting as a safe way to vote during the coronavirus pandemic and amid voter eagerness to weigh in on the political future of Republican President Donald Trump, who is facing a stiff challenge from Democrat Joe Biden.
Biden leads Trump in national opinion polls, although surveys in crucial battleground states indicate a tighter race….
image….The Hill with a look at the lines in Florida….
President Trump’s campaign has been videotaping voters at ballot drop boxes, a tactic that could amount to illegal voter intimidation, Pennsylvania’s attorney general says….
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The Trump campaign’s aggressive strategy in Philadelphia suggests its aim is to crack down on people dropping off ballots for family members or anyone else who is not strictly authorized to do so. Ms. Kerns demanded that the names of all voters who had used a drop box in front of Philadelphia’s City Hall on Oct. 14 be turned over to the campaign, and insisted that the city station a staff member around every drop box “at all times.” She also asked for footage from municipal cameras around City Hall.
But city officials rejected the assertion that the voters who had been photographed had necessarily done something improper. The city’s lawyers forwarded the campaign’s complaints to the local district attorney, but did not make a formal referral and cast doubt on the assertions. They also said they do not track which voters use which drop box.
“Third party delivery is permitted in certain circumstances,” Benjamin H. Field, a deputy city solicitor and counsel to the city Board of Elections..
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Justices Decline to Change Wisconsin Ballot Deadline
“The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Wisconsin’s voting laws Monday, rejecting an effort to require the counting of absentee ballots that are sent back to election officials on or just before Election Day,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
“The court’s 5-3 ruling means that absentee ballots will be counted only if they are in the hands of municipal clerks by the time polls close on Nov. 3.”
I have been concerned for awhile about this strategy by the Democrats of trying to expand these deadlines .
Look I am all in favor of expansive voting procedures but that takes new laws.
Depending on courts to override state laws is risky business.
The problem might be a Red state that somehow ‘sidetracks’ thousands of ballot and them ‘finds’ them after Election Day….
Where I’m at?
People are standing in line for HOURS because they ARE afraid their vote will be ‘misplaced’….
Or lost in the mail….
People are bring IN mail-in ballots to make sure they get to the polling stations ON TIME….
Well that’s something entirely different from what I’m talking about.
My point is that courts are often loathe to abrogate or overule a state law.
In the Wisconsin case they simply upheld the state law.
Ok….
Abortion and Racial overturns I guess don’t count?
Something to ponder….
Even Supreme Court justices can’t unilaterally decide to revisit precedents they don’t like. “Judges can’t just wake up one day and say, ‘I have an agenda. I like guns, I hate guns; I like abortion, I hate abortion,’ and walk in like a royal queen and impose, you know, their will on the world,” Barrett said. Cases have “to wind their way through the process.” Until abortion cases inevitably do wind their way up to the Supreme Court, her role in shaping abortion jurisprudence will be a black box, with nothing voters or legislators can do about it. As Feinstein said, “It’s distressing not to get a straight answer.”….
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You simply don’t understand what I’m talking about.
Then again, what’s new?
Of course courts dod NOT not want to seem politically undoing the peoples wishes…
Sometimes the ‘people’s’ wishes ARE against established law or rules….
Stop being foolish….
A start passes a law that slavery is legal….
Are the conservative Supreme Court justices gonna let the damn state do THAT?
Please See:
Constitutional Amendment, The 13th
Is that the Kavanaugh comment?
The chance of things getting there is minute…..
Official race results seldom change from AP and major network projected win calls…
This is just reaching…
Utah Republican Accepted Illegal
“Burgess Owens (R), a former professional football player running as a Republican in one of the country’s tightest House races, accepted more than $130,000 in contributions that were over the legal limit, raising questions in the final stretch of the election about his compliance with campaign finance laws,” the New York Times repo
Politicalwire
There are notorious (and thus memorable) examples of media projections failing. It took a while to call Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace in 1968, and the broadcasters (long before Bush v. Gore) kept flipping back and forth on Election Night 2000. … then there’s 2016, when the main question of almost everyone was how early in the night Hillary Clinton would be called.