BREAKING: NYC to extend early voting hours

[brooklynite]

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[Under The Radar]

1. We just may get to see what Amy Coney Barrett has to say about that

[brooklynite]

2. Honestly, too many people seem to believe the Court can do whatever it wants.

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No legal basis to challenge voting hours before Election Day.

[Under The Radar]

3. Yep and the constitution gives the states the choice on how their elections are held and conducted

But yesterday they somehow overturned that law despite it breaking precedent.

[Statistical]

5. Just like no basis for challenging accepting ballots received after election day.

[brooklynite]

7. Actually, they did have a basis...

State Law requires ballots to be in by Election Day. The State was trying to bypass that on an emergency basis rather than changing the law.

[NorthOf270]

8. They won't bother with this

New York is no concern to them.

[Statistical]

4. SCOTUS "that is unconstitutional".

Voting on Sunday was not an originalist intent.
Voting before sunrise was prohibited out of fear of vampires.
Voting on a Friday well Fridays are for partying not voting.
Voting on Thursday well it is known only witches voted on Thursday.

[Retrograde]

6. There's a reason we vote on Tuesdays

Back in the day, voters had to travel to their county seat to vote. As transportation was limited largely to feet and horses, it could take the better part of a day to get there, so voters (and they were a small percentage of the population back then, mainly white male landowners of means) spent Monday traveling, Tuesday engaging in election activities (voting and drinking), and returned home on Wednesday. Since one had to attend church on Sunday, election day obviously couldn't be on Monday since traveling on the Sabbath was frowned on. So Tuesday it was for election day.