Dems urge voters to avoid mailing ballots in final week
Source: MSN/Politico
With a week to go until Election Day, Democrats are pushing a new get-out-the-vote mantra: There’s still time to vote early, but it is too late to put your ballot in the mail.
Far more Democrats than Republicans plan to vote by mail in 2020, according to polling and ballot request data. That leaves the party more exposed if ballots returned via mail don’t reach election officials until after state deadlines. Now, those deadlines are looming in key battleground states, as are worries about postal delays and new concerns the Supreme Court will change procedures in important states.
The Supreme Court declined on Monday night to reinstate a lower court decision that extended mail ballot return deadlines in Wisconsin. Now, ballots are due in the state by the time the polls close on Nov. 3. The lower court had ordered Wisconsin to count ballots postmarked by Election Day as long as they were received some days later, and the ruling raised Democratic concerns about still-pending Supreme Court cases on extended ballot receipt deadlines in other swing states, like Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
“Bank it, bank it, bank it. Bank it!” Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, said in an interview, urging voters to cast their ballots now and to not wait. “If you have a ballot, deliver it to a secure ballot box. Don’t mail it in. I am not advocating at this point to trust mail.”
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With Trump sabotaging the US Post Office and Republican court appointees resisting efforts to ensure that vote by mail ballots cast before the election are counted, it is not a bad idea to vote-in person if you can and if your State does not offer absentee ballot drop off facilities.
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