AG Paxton Files Brief Defending Florida and Other States’ Authority to Regulate Their Elections

[Elderberry]

Sentinel Alert 11/15/2018

 AG Paxton Files Brief Defending Florida and Other States’ Legal Authority to Regulate Their Own Elections

 AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today joined Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia in filing a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, urging it to overturn a district court ruling that throws Florida’s election recount into more uncertainty and ultimately threatens states’ legal authority to regulate their own elections.

Earlier today, a district court judge declared that the procedures for implementing the signature-match requirement of Florida’s election law is unconstitutional. The court ruled that Florida voters whose mail-in and provisional ballots were rejected due to issues with their signatures will have two more days to resolve the problems and possibly have their votes counted in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Bill Nelson and Governor Rick Scott, who leads by fewer than 13,000 votes.

View the friend-of-the-court brief here: [url]https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/admin/2018/Press/FILED%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf]https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/admin/2018/Press/FILED%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf] [url]https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/admin/2018/Press/FILED%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf[/url]

More: https://www.sentinelalert.org/texas/

[Wingnut]

Nice.   There is some urgency here (understatement).  Hope we can get a ruling asap

[mystery-ak]

..and I thought the 2000 election crisis was bad....

[Wingnut]

..and I thought the 2000 election crisis was bad....

Just like 18 years ago the Rats don't have the votes so they need the courts to shill for them.

[Free Vulcan]

..and I thought the 2000 election crisis was bad....

This is where these states need to get aggressive with this. This crap needs to be settled. It sucks and is messy, but I'm tired of little pissant judges dragging election procedure all over the yard.

You have to have some way to limit questionable votes. If you can't then everybody might as well just start printing ballots and dropping them off at their election officials office.