USSC Clears Way For Pa to Count Votes That Have No Dates, Rejects Alito's Common Sense Rebuttal

[easyt65]

Didn't follow state rules and fill out your absentee ballot as required by state rules / laws?

Got absentee ballots with no date and missing envelopes with postmarks showing the votes were sent in on time?

Baaaah - forget about it. Screw the rules / law. Count 'em.

Voters shouldn't be punished for being too stupid to legally vote (which is the immefiate assumption instead of these absentee ballots being illegal votes).

Justice Alito, who handles emergency matters arising from Pennsylvania, saw it differently:

"When a mail-in ballot is not counted because it was not filled out correctly, the voter is not denied the right to vote. Rather, that individual’s vote is not counted because he or she did not follow the rules for casting a ballot. Casting a vote, whether by following the directions for using a voting machine or completing a paper ballot, requires compliance with certain rules.”

Compliance with election rules and law? That's just CRAZY ... evidently.

The argument that for votes to count they must comply with existing election law was rejected.

WTF?!

Supreme Court permits counting of Pennsylvania mail ballots with missing dates

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for election officials in Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots whose envelopes are missing a handwritten date, as required by state law. The dis…

thehill.com

 

[kaz]

Didn't follow state rules and fill out your absentee ballot as required by state rules / laws?

Got absentee ballots with no date and missing envelopes with postmarks showing the votes were sent in on time?

Baaaah - forget about it. Screw the rules / law. Count 'em.

Voters shouldn't be punished for being too stupid to legally vote (which is the immefiate assumption instead of these absentee ballots being illegal votes).

Justice Alito, who handles emergency matters arising from Pennsylvania, saw it differently:

"When a mail-in ballot is not counted because it was not filled out correctly, the voter is not denied the right to vote. Rather, that individual’s vote is not counted because he or she did not follow the rules for casting a ballot. Casting a vote, whether by following the directions for using a voting machine or completing a paper ballot, requires compliance with certain rules.”

Compliance with election rules and law? That's just CRAZY ... evidently.

The argument that for votes to count they must comply with existing election law was rejected.

WTF?!

Supreme Court permits counting of Pennsylvania mail ballots with missing dates

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for election officials in Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots whose envelopes are missing a handwritten date, as required by state law. The dis…

thehill.com

The more stupid someone is the more say they should have in elections. That doesn't make sense to you? Huh, me either ...

 

[Meister]

It is what it is, I just hope the states have made the right voting policies to not ever have
the voting issues like what was going on in this last election.
We'll never know for sure what shenanigans were played, if any at all.

 

[d0gbreath]

Voters from both sides could easily forget to date their ballots. It seems like a good ruling to me.

 

[LaDairis]

As long as they are allowed to cheat, they will cheat, and the GOP seems obsessed with allowing them to cheat....

How did Raffensperger win in GA?

What was his approval rating among Republican voters??? 3%?

 

[easyt65]

Voters from both sides could easily forget to date their ballots. It seems like a good ruling to me.

Tough shit. Again, close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades...or did. If you are too stupid to fill out your ballot according to the law then your vote should not count ... IN THIS INSTANCE.

The problem is not that voters forgot to put a date on the ballot. It's is there is no date on the ballot AND NO ACCOMPANYING EXISTING DATE STAMP proving the ballot was cast and mailed legally on time.

The date on the ballot ID and 'insurance policy' for your vote in case some election worker misplaced the envelopes with the date stamps.

Without 1 or the other there is no way to guarantee the vote is a legal ballot/ vote.

 

[d0gbreath]

Tough shit. Again, close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades...or did. If you are too stupid to fill out your ballot according to the law then your vote should not count ... IN THIS INSTANCE.

The problem is not that voters forgot to put a date on the ballot. It's is there is no date on the ballot AND NO ACCOMPANYING EXISTING DATE STAMP proving the ballot was cast and mailed legally on time.

The date on the ballot ID and 'insurance policy' for your vote in case some election worker misplaced the envelopes with the date stamps.

Without 1 or the other there is no way to guarantee the vote is a legal ballot/ vote.

In the link they only mention the voter forgetting to hand write the date.

No mention of "NO ACCOMPANYING EXISTING DATE STAMP proving the ballot was cast and mailed legally on time."

 

[easyt65]

In the link they only mention the voter forgetting to hand write the date.

No mention of "NO ACCOMPANYING EXISTING DATE STAMP proving the ballot was cast and mailed legally on time."

From the article / the link:

"The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for election officials in Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots whose envelopes are missing a handwritten date, as required by state law. "

Good catch - the 1st time I read this I mistook it as the envelope, with date stamp, was missing!

I was wrong on this. If the absentee / mail-in ballots' envelopes have a date stamp AND PA requires an additional hand-written date on it, that's pretty stupid, IMO.

While Alito's argument is still valid, voting must be in compliance with state election laws, this law seems stupid, another gate through which voters must jump and another opportunity to NOT count votes.

Again, great catch and assist to help with the correction!

 

[Darkwind]

In PA, it is now a guessing game as to how many ballots the other side will slip into the process to win.

It no longer matters that there are more ballots cast than than those registered.

The SCOTUS just made ballot box stuffing legal.

 

[Dekster]

Seems like a state issue for the state courts to settle.

 

[Oddball]

Voters from both sides could easily forget to date their ballots. It seems like a good ruling to me.

Then you're too fucking stupid to vote, let alone have it count.

 

[d0gbreath]

Then you're too fucking stupid to vote, let alone have it count.

Well, that's like your opinion man.

 

[basquebromance]

Only a man with Alito’s piercing intellect and deeply ingrained principles would have the balls to do what he (and at least four other justices) are about to do.

 

[busybee01]

Didn't follow state rules and fill out your absentee ballot as required by state rules / laws?

Got absentee ballots with no date and missing envelopes with postmarks showing the votes were sent in on time?

Baaaah - forget about it. Screw the rules / law. Count 'em.

Voters shouldn't be punished for being too stupid to legally vote (which is the immefiate assumption instead of these absentee ballots being illegal votes).

Justice Alito, who handles emergency matters arising from Pennsylvania, saw it differently:

"When a mail-in ballot is not counted because it was not filled out correctly, the voter is not denied the right to vote. Rather, that individual’s vote is not counted because he or she did not follow the rules for casting a ballot. Casting a vote, whether by following the directions for using a voting machine or completing a paper ballot, requires compliance with certain rules.”

Compliance with election rules and law? That's just CRAZY ... evidently.

The argument that for votes to count they must comply with existing election law was rejected.

WTF?!

Supreme Court permits counting of Pennsylvania mail ballots with missing dates

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for election officials in Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots whose envelopes are missing a handwritten date, as required by state law. The dis…

thehill.com

The ballots that have no dates on them were received before or on the day of election. Clearly they arrived on time.