Voting Lawsuits Piling Up Across US With Election a Month Away

It is increasingly clear that the Supreme Court will be tasked to insure the fidelity and integrity of the election.

The Democrat totalitarians have run amok.

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Voting Lawsuits Piling Up Across US With Election a Month Away

By: Newsmax, 30 September 2020 07:26 PM

They’ve been fighting in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania over the cutoff date for counting mailed ballots.

In North Carolina, it’s witness requirements.

Ohio is grappling with drop boxes for ballots.

And Texas faces a court challenge over extra days of early voting.

Measuring the anxiety over the November election is as simple as tallying the hundreds of voting-related lawsuits filed across the country in recent months. The cases concern the fundamentals of the American voting process, including how ballots are cast and counted, during an election made unique by the coronavirus pandemic and by a president who refuses to commit to accepting the results.

The lawsuits are all the more important because President Donald Trump has raised the prospect that the election may wind up before a Supreme Court with a decidedly Republican tilt if his latest nominee is confirmed.

“This is a president who has expressed his opposition to access to mail ballots and has also seemed to almost foreshadow the inevitability that this election will be one decided by the courts,” said Kristen Clarke, executive director of the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

As recently as Tuesday night, near the end of the first of three presidential debates between Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden, Trump launched into an extended argument against mail voting, claiming — as he’s done repeatedly in the past several months — that it is ripe for fraud and “manipulated” ballots.

“This is going to be a fraud like you’ve never seen,” the president said of the massive shift to mail voting prompted by the pandemic. He has also been loath to commit to accepting the results of the election, saying it could take weeks or months tally all votes and high-court intervention to certify a winner.

The lawsuits are a likely precursor for what will come afterward. Republicans say they have retained outside law firms, along with thousands of volunteer lawyers at the ready. Democrats have, in the same vein, announced a legal war room of heavyweights, including a pair of former solicitors general.

The race is already regarded as the most litigated in American history, due in large part to the massive expansion of mail and absentee voting. Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt, a former Justice Department elections official, has tallied some 260 lawsuits arising from the coronavirus. The Republication National Committee itself says it’s involved in more than 40 lawsuits, and a website operated by a chief Democrat lawyer lists active cases worth watching in about 15 states.

Democrats are focusing their efforts on multiple core areas — securing free postage for mail ballots, reforming signature-match laws, allowing ballot collection by third-parties like community organizations and ensuring that ballots postmarked by Election Day can count. Republicans warn that those same requests open the door to voter fraud and confusion and are countering efforts to relax rules on how voters cast ballots this November.

“We’re trying to prevent chaos in the process,” RNC chief counsel Justin Riemer said in an interview. “Nothing creates more chaos than rewriting a bunch of rules at the last minute.”

But there have been no broad-based, sweeping examples of voter fraud during past presidential elections, including in 2016, when Trump claimed the contest would be rigged and Russians sought to meddle in the outcome.

Some of the disputes are unfolding in states not traditionally thought of as election battlegrounds, such as Montana, where there is a highly competitive Senate race on the ballot — no small thing in a year when Democrats, currently in the Senate minority, are looking to flip enough seats to control that chamber as well as the House. A judge Wednesday rejected an effort by Trump’s reelection campaign and Republican groups to block counties from holding the general election mostly by mail.

But most of the closely watched cases are in states perceived as up-for-grabs in 2020 and probably crucial to the race.

That includes Ohio, where a coalition of voting groups and Democrats have sued to force an expansion of ballot drop boxes from more than just one per county. Separately on Monday, a federal judge rejected changes to the state’s signature-matching requirement for ballots and ballot applications, handing a win to the state’s Republican election chief who has been engulfed with litigation this election season.

In Arizona, a judge’s ruling that voters who forget to sign their early ballots have up to five days after the election to fix the problem is now on appeal before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. The ruling gave Democrats in the state at least a temporary victory in a case that could nonetheless by appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In neighboring Michigan, the GOP is suing to try to overturn a decision that lets the state count absentee ballots up to 14 days after the election.

In battleground North Carolina, where voters are already struggling with rules requiring witness signatures on absentee ballots, the RNC and Trump’s campaign committee have sued over new election guidance that will permit ballots with incomplete witness information to be fixed without the voter having to fill out a new blank ballot.

In Iowa, the Trump campaign and Republican groups have won a series of sweeping legal victories in their attempts to limit absentee voting, with judges throwing out tens of thousands of absentee ballot applications in three counties. This week, another judge upheld a new Republican-backed law that will make it harder for counties to process absentee ballot applications.

Pennsylvania has been a particular hive of activity.

Republican lawmakers asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to put a hold on a ruling by the state’s highest court that extends the deadline for receiving and counting mailed-in ballots. Republicans also object to a portion of the state court’s ruling that orders counties to count ballots that arrive during the three-day extension period even if they lack a postmark or legible postmark.

Meanwhile in federal court, Republicans are suing to, among other things, outlaw drop boxes or other sites used to collect mail-in ballots.

The Supreme Court itself has already been asked to get involved in several cases, as it did in April, when conservative justices blocked Democratic efforts to extend absentee voting in Wisconsin during the primary.

There is, of course, precedent for an election that ends in the courts. In 2000, the Supreme Court settled a recount dispute in Florida, effectively handing the election to Republican George W. Bush.

Barry Richard, a Florida lawyer who represented Bush during that litigation, said there’s no guarantee the Supreme Court will want to get involved again, or that any lawsuit over the election will present a compelling issue for the bench to address.

One significant difference between then and now, he said, is that neither candidate raised the prospect of not accepting the results.

“There was never any question, in 2000, about the essential integrity of the system. Neither candidate challenged it,” Richard said. “Nobody even talked about whether or not the losing candidate would accept the results of the election. That was just assumed.”

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felix1999

3 years ago

It’s all part of the plan. DEMS are going after the Senate and aniticpating Congress determining who the next President is by electors. Trump understands what they are doing and briefly referenced it.

As the GOPe, Mitch McConnell and company, remain in denial about voter fraud,
DEMS are simply implementing this –

Pelosi Writes A Letter To Liberal Colleagues To Guarantee November Victory
written by Mike Santorini September 30, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was reportedly rounding up her Democratic lawmaker colleagues, should neither one of the two presidential nominees not win the outright Electoral College – an election scenario, which has never happened since 1876.

Meaning, in case this happens, it is up to the House of Representatives to decide who is going to be the next president. According to Politico, the 12th Amendment says a presidential candidate needs to receive 270 Electoral College vote to win.

In her letter on Sunday, as reported by the news outlet, she warned the liberals that their November 3 victory could be “stolen” from them, so they have to prepare and focus on winning more seats come election.

Her opinion came after president Trump hinted he could not possibly accept a defeat, questioning the security of mail-in ballots. In the past days, reports tell there have been ballots from the military dumped in the river with Trump’s name on it in Pennsylvania. In Texas, a Republican team requested a probe into Biden’s campaign over alleged illegal ballot harvesting.

Biden denies these allegations during their first debate in Ohio Tuesday evening, saying there is no evidence.

Politico says:

This means the presidency may not be decided by the party that controls the House itself but by the one that controls more state delegations in the chamber. And right now, Republicans control 26 delegations to Democrats’ 22, with Pennsylvania tied and Michigan a 7-6 plurality for Democrats, with a 14th seat held by independent Justin Amash.

Pelosi foresees it will be a savage election battle so she reminded her allies that they need to win in Montana and Alaska, where the conservatives dominate over Democrats on a little scale. In short, they could upturn a whole delegation with a single upset House victory.

“Because we cannot leave anything to chance, House Majority PAC is doing everything it can to win more delegations for Democrats,” Pelosi wrote.

https://newspushed.com/pelosi-writes-a-letter-to-liberal-colleagues-to-guarantee-november-victory/

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MAS

3 years ago

Tagged…

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MAS

3 years ago

I noticed the headline picture showed a recycling bin. The most important thing is that the Democrats make sure to recycle all Republican mail in ballots. Save the earth and all…

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stephen5970

3 years ago

The writer seems to be apprehensive of what a “Republican leaning” Supreme Court would do. Apparently if the court is made up of Democrat leaning justices (aka activist jurists) everything would be fine. The concept that a Republican appointment can bring down a judgement based upon the constitution appears to be something foreign to the writer. What about all the years of a majority Democrat appointed court? Why should we not have been apprehensive of that court.

Yes, there are a great many instances of voter fraud in the past, and virtually every day we hear of new discoveries of Trump ballots or ballots from Republican districts being dumped in the trash, gully, or into a stream, We see hidden camera recording of vote buying, ballot stealing, that ballots were being filled out by a mass production line, and evidence that a Democrat candidate set up ballot buying/stealing. Perhaps the writer thought it was simply voting corruption and not voting fraud; little secret for the Newmax winter – its the same thing.

Lawsuits? What else does one do when the rules and laws for voting are being changed all the time? Perhaps Newsmax would prefer rioting, setting buildings on fire, or shooting people in the street who disagree with you? In Democrat controlled areas things are not proceeding in a way that one would call kosher.

Accepting the election results? Hillary still refuses to accept defeat. A Democrat who lost to a Republican for a state governorship is still going around saying she won even after losing by 50,000 votes. Hillary has been telling Biden to never concede if he is declared the loser.

So, what exactly was the reason this article was written? It only cast backhanded aspersions on the Republicans for using the legal system to try to keep the election fair and clean.

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Jhn1✓ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ

3 years ago

The reprinted article contains many falsehoods and reads like it was written by a leftist pretending to be a Never Trumper.

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

3 years ago

“allowing ballot collection by third-parties like community organizations” would that include the likes of CAIR and BLM?
If Trump loses it’s a sure bet the rotten Commiecrats will insure they can use voter fraud as their go-to tactic across the country ad infinitum — or until the entire country becomes a one party system (like Californication is now).

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Laddyboy

3 years ago

“This is a president who has expressed his opposition to access to mail ballots and has also seemed to almost foreshadow the inevitability that this election will be one decided by the courts,” said Kristen Clarke, executive director of the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.” I call this a BLATANT LIE! President Trump NEVER said this about REQUESTED ABSENTEE BALLOTS that are transferred via the mail !!!!

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DVader

3 years ago

And the Republicans are losing nearly all of the cases in their obvious voter suppression campaign.

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