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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: Wisconsin Supreme Court rules Green Party cannot be on ballot
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/14/wisconsin-supreme-court-keeps-green-party-off-ballot-absentee-ballots-mailed-on-time/5796737002/The ruling also bolsters hopes for Democrats, who feared presidential nominee Joe Biden could lose a small share of his votes to the liberal third party. Republicans had hoped the Green Party would shave just enough votes from Biden's total to give President Donald Trump a victory this fall in a state he narrowly won in 2016.
Justice Brian Hagedorn broke with his fellow conservatives to form a majority with the court's liberals that kept Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins off the ballot.
The majority found Hawkins and his running mate, Milwaukee native Angela Walker, waited too long to bring their legal challenge.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)because the last I heard this lawsuit STOPPED voting by mail...?
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Now lets hope the TRAITOR FUCK dejoy allows the mail to go thru
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)My brother said what used to take no more than 2 days now up to 10 days for a given item between two places.
LisaL
(44,962 posts)My state (OH) won't even start mailing ballots until October 6th.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)as they are postmarked a day before the election. So people do have some extra time. Of course that could make for a delay in knowing who won OH if it's close.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)late.
I HOPE they are counted, I HOPE there isnt mass violence by trumpers to STOP the counting, but I think there will be.
I WAnT to be wrong.
jcgoldie
(11,584 posts)The Green Party just didnt get their shit together or what?
LisaL
(44,962 posts)But it's democrats who are suing in PA. My opinion is that at some point they might want to drop the lawsuit if they don't get supreme court to decide quickly.
"The lower court judge, a Republican, dismissed arguments that the presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins, should be barred from the ballot, but agreed that the Green Partys vice presidential nominee should be barred."
https://apnews.com/522d38d81a44019588d86be8466dc9c3