MADISON - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Wisconsin's voting laws Monday, rejecting an effort to require the counting of absentee ballots that are sent back to election officials on or just before Election Day.
The court's 5-3 ruling means that absentee ballots will be counted only if they are in the hands of municipal clerks by the time polls close on Nov. 3.
The justices determined the courts shouldn't be the ones to decide the election rules amid the coronavirus pandemic that is surging in Wisconsin and across the world.
"The Constitution provides that state legislatures — not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state officials — bear primary responsibility for setting election rules," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion.
In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan gave that notion short shrift, noting Wisconsin's Republican-run Legislature hasn't met since April. Extending the deadline for absentee ballots should have been allowed, she wrote.
#1: nolu chan To: A K A Stone (#0)
Note this pertains to Wisconsin state law and applies only to Wisconsin.
Note that Pennsylvania was allowed to count ballots which arrived after election day.
Each state must comply with the law of that state.
nolu chan posted on 2020-12-11 12:32:16 Reply Private Reply
#2: BorisY To: A K A Stone (#0)
I expect foot-dragging until December 15th, at which time the SC will say the matter is moot.
I suspect more radical solutions are needed.
I hope Trump is ... up to --- the task.
7 posted on 12/11/2020 by HogsBreath
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BorisY posted on 2020-12-11 12:54:09 Reply Private Reply