Why Voting By Mail Imperils Biden More Than Trump by David Catron

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 Why Voting By Mail Imperils Biden More Than Trump
It puts Democrat-controlled states at greater risk of missing “safe harbor” deadline.

by David Catron
August 4, 2020, 12:35 AM

The Democrats are obviously committed to using the COVID-19 pandemic as the latest pretext for achieving their longtime goal of widespread voting by mail. They may, however, end up outsmarting themselves. The Democrats are so invested in their revisionist history concerning Bush v. Gore that they have forgotten why SCOTUS actually stopped the Florida recounts on December 12, 2000. That was the “safe harbor” date after which the state’s electors may not have been counted. Federal law requires that states must resolve post-election disputes (e.g. recounts) within 35 days after Election Day or risk disfranchising their voters. In 2000, that would have changed the outcome of the presidential election.

    In other words, the Democratic campaign to convince the public that it is dangerous to vote in person primarily scares their own voters.

What does this have to do with mail-in voting? Acting on the assumption that Congress is unlikely to pass legislation requiring every state to send mail-in ballots to all registered voters, a number of Democrat-controlled states are moving to pass bills that will mandate vote-by-mail schemes within their own borders. Nevada just became the latest state to adopt such a plan. The obvious problem is that Election Day is only three months away and the logistical difficulties of expanding mail-in voting are legion. Five states, including Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, conduct elections exclusively by mail and still have serious problems after years of trying to get it right. Indeed, they have literally lost millions of ballots.

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[Cyber Liberty]

Catron is making a case I've been thinking of since the start of the thread about Trump's "infamous Tweet" about the timing of the Election. 

It apparently took less than 20 years to forget why Gore lost his appeal to SCOTUS during the Florida recounts.  The "Safe Harbor" was fast approaching, and the legal remedy prescribed in the Statute is to not count the Electoral Votes from Florida in the College.  There was a count to certify in Florida, but the Democrats were fighting it because Bush had the lead in the latest tally.

It's silly to say "the counts won't be known for two months," because that's not the measure of legal success.  If a State can't certify its Presidential Electors in 35 days, then it won't be counted.  The Dems are playing a dangerous game, because they would actually lose the California and NY Electors.  The total number of Electoral Votes required to win would go down to a number substantially less than 270.  And it would most certainly hurt Dems more than the Pubbies, because the mail-in vote states are Dem.

Imagine an Electoral College absent the votes of their two largest States.  That is what Democrats are demanding.

[DB]

Catron is making a case I've been thinking of since the start of the thread about Trump's "infamous Tweet" about the timing of the Election. 

It apparently took less than 20 years to forget why Gore lost his appeal to SCOTUS during the Florida recounts.  The "Safe Harbor" was fast approaching, and the legal remedy prescribed in the Statute is to not count the Electoral Votes from Florida in the College.  There was a count to certify in Florida, but the Democrats were fighting it because Bush had the lead in the latest tally.

It's silly to say "the counts won't be known for two months," because that's not the measure of legal success.  If a State can't certify its Presidential Electors in 35 days, then it won't be counted.  The Dems are playing a dangerous game, because they would actually lose the California and NY Electors.  The total number of Electoral Votes required to win would go down to a number substantially less than 270.  And it would most certainly hurt Dems more than the Pubbies, because the mail-in vote states are Dem.

Imagine an Electoral College absent the votes of their two largest States.  That is what Democrats are demanding.

You're assuming the law would be followed. Lately the law is whatever some judge says it is. Even from the top court.

[Cyber Liberty]

You're assuming the law would be followed. Lately the law is whatever some judge says it is. Even from the top court.

If there is another Florida-like counting fiasco, and it hits SCOTUS, they would likely come down 9-0, as they did in 2000.  The Statutory requirements of the Safe Harbor are >100 years old.

in 2000, the Court found by 7-2 the vote as it stood could be Certified, and the remedy to satisfy the Statute was 9-0.

But you are absolutely correct, there will be criminal mischief from the lower courts along the way, especially the 9th Circus.

[DB]

If there is another Florida-like counting fiasco, and it hits SCOTUS, they would likely come down 9-0, as they did in 2000.  The Statutory requirements of the Safe Harbor are >100 years old.

in 2000, the Court found by 7-2 the vote as it stood could be Certified, and the remedy to satisfy the Statute was 9-0.

But you are absolutely correct, there will be criminal mischief from the lower courts along the way, especially the 9th Circus.

How long has the rule been that tax law has to originate in the house? Didn't bother the supreme court to rule in favor of Obamacare despite that.

And what court would disenfranchise 60 million voters in a presidential election? They'd justify counting them one way or another. The law be damned. In the greater interest and all...

[Cyber Liberty]

The bottom line is the Safe Harbor provision.  There is a remedy in place if states can't certify their elections in time, and that's loss of all their electoral votes.  The Rats may be OK with that, and the affected states may try to Secede, as was the premise of another thread.

The Rats are playing their most dangerous game since the run-up to the Civil War.  They don't care what it does to the Union.