Supreme Court rejects Democratic attempt to extend Wisconsin mail-in voting deadline

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(CNN) - A divided Supreme Court said Monday that mail-in ballots in Wisconsin could be counted only if they are received by Election Day.

Democrats in the state had asked the court to allow the counting of ballots that arrive up to six days after Election Day if they were postmarked by November 3.

The ruling was 5-3, coming just before the Senate voted to add Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Justice Elena Kagan, joined by her liberal colleagues, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, dissented from the court's order.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/politics/wisconsin-mail-in-voting-deadline-supreme-court/index.html

[sakabatou]

1. God fucking dammit.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Please do not trust your ballot to the mail...please hand deliver it..PLEASE

[SMC22307]

4. Amen to that. Tomorrow's the 27th, FFS, not enough time! (n/t)

[radius777]

3. Conservatives hate democracy.

Luckily when they tried this in the primaries (forced people into the pandemic) it backfired on them and the liberal state supreme court justice won easily.

Biden is up enough in Wisconsin, if polls are correct, and this move likely will motivate our side even more to stick it to the RW.

[AlexSFCA]

5. with many usps machines disassembled in WI

lots of ballots are unlikely to be counted.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. This just isn't true.

Please leave the disinformation to the Republicans.

Currently, 61% of ballots requested have been returned - over a million.

Including 60% in Milwaukee County alone (about 173,275 so far) and 70% for Dane County (Madison).

In fact, a lot of Democratic counties (won by Hillary in 2016) have returned their ballots at a higher rate than GOP counties.

[Quixote1818]

6. In the past didn't it just have to show it was mailed before election day? The postmark? nt

[Drunken Irishman]

8. No. The state changed the rules and that prompted the lawsuit.

It used to be that it had to be there on election day or it wasn't counted.

[Hoyt]

9. Hopefully, not many Democrats were planning on mailing ballots

at this point.

There are a number of drop boxes in counties. Use them like you are stuffing a GOPer.

[dalton99a]

10. The Trump Court is the enemy of the people and should be treated as such.

[Alex4Martinez]

11. I was just about to post this remarkable fuck up.

Link to tweet

[budkin]

12. A victory for authoritarianism!

Under his eye.

[marmar]

13. And Kavanaugh added this fascist pantload:

“For important reasons, most States, including Wisconsin, require absentee ballots to be received by election day, not just mailed by election day,” Kavanaugh writes. “Those States want to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of an election. And those States also want to be able to definitively announce the results of the election on election night, or as soon as possible thereafter. Moreover, particularly in a Presidential election, counting all the votes quickly can help the State promptly resolve any disputes, address any need for recounts, and begin the process of canvassing and certifying the election results in an expeditious manner.”