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Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:42 PM Sep 2020

Breaking: 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/

MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court kept the Green Party's presidential ticket off the ballot Monday, disappointing party members but ensuring more than a million absentee ballots will be sent to voters Thursday as required by state law.

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.
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Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. Can ballots be mailed and counted now? This is good news if something CHANGES
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:44 PM
Sep 2020

because the last I heard this lawsuit STOPPED voting by mail...?

from link

But in a second 4-3 decision, the court on Monday vacated its earlier order and determined ballots could be mailed now.


Now lets hope the TRAITOR FUCK dejoy allows the mail to go thru

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
3. Thanks, I saw that...have you mailed anything lately, how long does it take?
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:46 PM
Sep 2020

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)
4. Wisconsin voters will have plenty of time.
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:48 PM
Sep 2020

My state (OH) won't even start mailing ballots until October 6th.

LisaL

(44,962 posts)
7. Well, our ballots in OH can arrive up to 10 days after the election and be counted, as long
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:51 PM
Sep 2020

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)
8. That is what the law says, the law no longer matters. We need to learn that now, before it is too
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:54 PM
Sep 2020

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)
6. Is Pennsylvania deciding basically the same case?
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:50 PM
Sep 2020

The Green Party just didnt get their shit together or what?

LisaL

(44,962 posts)
9. There is some goofy shit going on.
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:55 PM
Sep 2020

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 Party’s vice presidential nominee should be barred."
https://apnews.com/522d38d81a44019588d86be8466dc9c3

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