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Where was the insanity of stopping non-citizens from voting in our federal elections?
Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania.
Some sanity in the world.
What are you talking about? This case deals with people who forgot to use a second envelope when mailing in their ballots.
Even though omission of the outer envelop takes away any ability to assess the legitimacy of the ballot, it's probably the right decision. Vote by mail is just a bad idea, IMO, regardless of whether it's convenient or popular. Leads to these situations where someone has to make a judgement call on whether or not it was a voter who couldn't follow simple instructions. Gray areas like that are too easy to exploit. At least they got it settled before the election, and hopefully tha PA legislature will tighten up their legislation going forward.
The question is that people were not using an inner secrecy envelope that was placed in the outer envelope. Voters were using the correct outer envelope but did not use the inner secrecy envelope. In any event, voters were allowed to cast a provisional ballot in case their mail-in ballot was rejected because of the missing secrecy envelope.
In typical Pennsylvania fashion, they don’t know how to correct the problem very well. Why not have a lookup system where voters can check online whether there are any problems with the ballot they sent in? If there are, they can come into the board of elections to get them corrected. It’s what we do here.
Okay, if that's the case (never did see those details mentioned in any of the blurbs I saw on the topic ). I'd be inclined to say the Pennsylvania legislature should modify their laws to simply accept a ballot received in such a condition, and put a big warning in what they mail out that if the voter blows off the secrecy envelope then the secrecy of their ballot cannot be guaranteed, but then put in a reasonable process for workers to follow to to preserve secrecy to the extent possible. I'm still an anacranism and will never feel good unless I put my own ballot in a box with officials monitoring it on election day.
I think you guys mean the Pennsy Supreme Court. Which made convoluted decisions in previous elections against the State Constitution.Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea
The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania.
Some sanity in the world.
The secrecy envelope has the written info provided by the voter that verifies who they are and that they’re a registered voter. It’s a necessary feature of the system for it to work. The outside envelope contains none of that.
Okay, thanks. I thought it was the other way around, that the outer envelope had whatever would be the legitimizing/identifying information and the inner when removed would anonymize the ballot when it was counted. So I was sort of right to begin with even though I misunderstood which envelope was missing in that votes are indeed reaching election officials who can't verify they are legitimate when they receive them, which is no bueno. It's a very flawed way to do it. I don't think the lawsuit was as frivolous as I thought earlier. It should surprise no one that skepticism about election integrity is a growing thing.
Actually, you're right for Pennsylvania which is why they can't run an election and not screw it up. There's nothing the voter provides in that state that proves the ballot is legitimate other than their signature and date on the outer envelope. Here, the inner envelope contains all the necessary identifying info (registered name, driver's license or last four of SSN, etc.--all filled out by the voter). This is the proof that it's the real voter and their way of marking that the voter has "voted". The electronic database records that the voter has voted at the polls or by absentee. Once you've requested an absentee ballot, you're blocked from voting at the polls though you can still vote provisionally. Those ballots are only accepted later (by represnetatives from both major parties) once it's confirmed you've not voted any other way.
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Donald Trump—Inheritor of the Left and the American Jewish Legacy | Opinion
The Left didn't just abandon us—it abandoned labor. That's who we should go back to standing with, just as America's working class has stood by us.
Unless this poll is right and the rest like Atlas Intel are garbage! The polls on the aggregators like 538 and Silver are faked even Silver stated that the polls are garbage and statistically impossible for them all show the same close race. I suggest you go read Nate’s the Silver Bulletin.With everything breaking for Trump currently, this poll isn’t believable.
Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how
The new Iowa Poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 points. Pollster J. Ann Selzer: “It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming.”www.desmoinesregister.com
538 is ABC (Disney) at this point. I read Silver occasionally. He’s lost his way a bit. Even he suggests Kamala still only has a 17% chance to win Iowa with this latest poll included.
You said “some sanity in the world”. So what you’re saying is it isn’t sane to take illegal alien/non-citizens off state voter roles, as in Virginia, but this decision in PA is sane.
And just think, in 60ish hours, or 68ish hours + 10 days, it'll all be over except the accusations, lawsuits, and possibly 4 more years of TDS.
Isn’t this biological men in women’s sports nonsense being taken up by a case in front of SCOTUS in this session or am I misremembering?
I guess we learn Tuesday which polls are legit and which are garbage.
