U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether North Carolina will count mailed-in ballots after November 6

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U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether North Carolina will count mailed-in ballots after November 6

By Carolina Journal Staff, October 25, 2020, :

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Raleigh, NC – The U.S. Supreme Court will decide soon whether N.C. election officials count absentee ballots received by mail between November 7 and November 12. Two sets of plaintiffs filed paperwork Sunday, Oct. 25, arguing for the high court to block those ballots from being counted.

The plaintiffs are seeking an emergency injunction to block counting of ballots received after Nov. 6, which is three days after Election Day. A 5 p.m. Nov. 6 deadline is set by state law.

“An emergency injunction is urgently needed to ensure that our federal election is governed by the statutes enacted by the people’s duly elected representatives, and not by the whims of an unelected state agency,” said plaintiffs in the case named Wise v. Circosta. “The North Carolina State Board of Elections insists that its election-eve rewrite of the state election code as part of a back-room settlement with a partisan advocacy group is only a ‘modest’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But that disregards the grave constitutional interests at stake.”

The Wise plaintiffs note that the N.C. General Assembly approved bipartisan legislation in June. It changed state election law to address challenges linked to COVID-19. In passing new legislation before the election began, the legislature “carefully balanced the challenges posed by the pandemic with the need to protect the election’s integrity,” according to the brief. “The [elections] Board seeks to upend that balance by substituting its own policy preferences for those of the General Assembly, an egregious rule-of-law violation that can lead only to chaos and voter confusion.”

The state elections board engaged in “abuse of authority,” according to the Wise plantiffs. “Applicants urge this Court to safeguard our federal election, enforce the Constitution, and put a stop to this election-law abuse.”

Plaintiffs in the Wise case include individual voters, President Trump’s re-election campaign, two Republican congressmen, and state and national GOP groups. A separate case, Moore v. Circosta, features the Republican leaders of the N.C. House and Senate, two voters, and a GOP congressional candidate.

“The North Carolina General Assembly’s constitutional power to set the rules for federal elections and North Carolina voters’ right to vote on equal terms are at stake in this case,” said Moore plaintiffs in their Sunday filing. “A nonrepresentative body — the North Carolina State Board of Elections — has usurped the constitutionally delegated authority of the General Assembly to structure federal elections under the Constitution’s Elections Clause.”

“By extending the absentee ballot receipt deadline from 5 p.m. on November 6, 2020, to 5 p.m. on November 12, 2020 — in direct contravention of the General Assembly’s duly enacted statute … — the NCSBE is sowing confusion among both voters and election officials by unconstitutionally changing the election rules after the election has already started and causing disparate treatment of voters in the ongoing election in violation of the Elections Clause and the Equal Protection Clause.”

Moore plaintiffs argue that the Democrat-dominated state elections board “is implementing an ‘insidious formula’” to replace state law with “its own policy preferences.”

Plaintiffs in both cases object to a state lawsuit settlement finalized Oct. 2. The settlement represented a deal among the elections board, the Democratic N.C. attorney general, and plaintiffs working with Marc Elias, national Democrats’ point man for election lawsuits across the country. The controversial settlement included the mail-in ballot deadline extension, along with other provisions that generated criticism from legislative leaders and Republican groups.

The emergency application for an injunction sits with U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who hears all emergency appeals from the federal court system’s 4th Circuit. Roberts set a Saturday deadline for filings from other parties in the case.

In addition to responses from the original defendants in both cases, three other groups are attempting to sway Roberts and his Supreme Court colleagues.

The national election-integrity group True the Vote filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday. True the Vote supports efforts to stop the state elections board from rewriting N.C. election law.

On the other side of the case, left-of-center activist group Democracy North Carolina, the League of Women Voters, and other plaintiffs in an earlier election lawsuit are urging the Supreme Court to reject an injunction.

Fourteen Democratic state attorneys general and the attorney general for the District of Columbia have filed a joint brief. They also oppose a Supreme Court injunction.

Roberts can issue a decision on his own or refer the cases to his colleagues. It’s unclear whether the court will make a decision before the U.S. Senate votes to fill the current Supreme Court vacancy. A vote on nominee Amy Coney Barrett is expected Monday.

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NotTheMama
NotTheMama
3 years ago

The problem with a 3 day cutoff is they will count the demonrat ballets first since the mail-in ballots are marked D or R.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Amy Coney Barrett sworn in
as Supreme Court Associate Justice at White House ceremony

By Sam Dorman | Fox News 10/26/20
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/amy-coney-barrett-sworn-in-as-supreme-court-associated-justice-at-white-house-ceremony

What a proud moment this must be for her! I wish her well.
Just do a good job and be a conservative.
Just in time justice?

Welcome Justice Barrette!
Just in time!
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CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
3 years ago

Nooooooooooooo!

You CAN NOT let the Democrats create the number of fake ballots they need after they find out what they need to win on election night!

This CAN NOT be allowed!!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Yup. Do a subtotal and then magically more ballots will appear where a signature verification isn’t needed and get the total you need to win.
It’s outrageous. Hopefully this will be revisited with NINE justices rather than eight. Had Mitch moved a little faster, allot of these fraud cases would not be allowed. Roberts hates Trump.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

How much faster could Senator McConnell have moved?

This full Senate confirmation process was pretty damned fast.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Ruth Ginsburg died September 18, 2020.
Give her a week for mourning so that takes us to September 25, to start the process.
If we have to give the committee a week that would take us to October 2. All they do is recommend or not recommend. Who really cares what they do…

So it moves to the Senate. At most give them a week so that takes us to October 9. Give them a few days to decide on how they will vote and let Mitt twist arms and take a vote on October 12. Had this duplication and waste of time been moved along, other ballet cases could have had a different outcome rather than holding off till 10/26. We wasted two weeks.

Frankly I don’t see why the committe garbage and Senate garbage was needed. Give RGB a week for mourning and they could have taken a vote on September 25, or the 28th. for Senate confirmation. She would have been part of the court and stopped Roberts from ruling for vote cheating sooner. Roberts has already ruled against Trump. They already know her and nothing about her has changed,

Keep in mind that Trump put ACB on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017. It’s only slightly less than three years later and she is being interviewed by the same people and the same procedure for another judge slot. This was the only position she has held as a judge. The rest of her background is academia. She was confirmed for that postion on November 2, 2017.

Ironically it’s almost 3 years later to the day that ACB was originally confirmed for her first judgeship by Trump on November 2, 2017. I really think these people in D.C. could operate a little faster.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

The president nominated Justice Barrett Saturday, September 26th. That takes it to Monday, the 28th. It’s a long standing tradition for each judicial committee senator to have a one-on-one meeting with the nominee.

That sped through quite rapidly.

Moreover, it may have taken a great deal of promising and arm twisting to secure the votes.

If you want to change decades of precedent, go for it. Democrat Party members do that ALL of the time.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

We did nothing for a couple of weeks after Trump announced her. I care less and less about precedent. I admit, I am impatient.

I despise most people in the swamp. They do so little and personally benefit so much.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I’m not here to defend The Turtle. He’s not my senator, as I don’t live in his state.

This close to election I’ll let the president’s actions of letting violent criminals back on the streets, his selectively giving my tax money, SPECIFICALLY to “historically black colleges” and his promise of gifting one half of ONE TRILLION DOLLARS, SPECIFICALLY to the “black community”. Those are things that I personally despise.

However, if joe and the hoe get in, by hook or crook and theft …. there is NO hope left for America.

RINO or otherwise, I have to vote for Republicans and I won’t say anything negative about them until after the election, which I fervently pray they will win.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I just received an email from a constitutional group to which I belong. It’s headline was “It’s OK to Be Mad At Trump But Don’t Pretend There’s Another Choice in 2020”.

Couldn’t have put that better, no matter how long I tried.

Bill
Bill
3 years ago

Roberts voted in favor of cheating in Penn.

dapto
dapto
3 years ago

Collins needs to be targeted and removed from politics she’s a traitor to the American people.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  dapto

That may happen. If you are talking about Susan Collins, her DEM challenger is giving her a run for the money. As usual we cheer on Collins over the DEM. It’s frustrating. We need young new blood that is conservative to challenge and get rid of these unpredictable RINOS. It takes money to run and that’s when the compromises start happening…

Keeping the Senate majority is proving to be a major challenge…..

arthur facteau
arthur facteau
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Only real problem with Collins is that she developed a case of TDS. Aside from that, she has actually been pretty good for Maine overall. Not a perfect record, but can’t say that about anybody. Gideon would be a disaster, esp. for our 2A rights, she would come after that with a vengeance.

If the Maine GOP would grow a pair, we would all be better off. I remember the last election for Mayor in Portland, I live there, was no one for me to vote for, not a single Conservative, all liberal/progressives running, so didn’t even bother. Not even a lesser of the two evils really. You would think they could at least try and find a viable candidate to try and get some support for that position, after all, that’s the person that is going to have control of PPD for God’s sake, as well as a lot of other things.

But nope….utterly useless once again. This is why we are dominated in all the small elections all over the state as well, Democrats and progressives and now muslims all over the state, alderman, town council, city council, this is why the schools are starting to suck so bad, what is being taught, why some things get closed down as to a lack of funding. Or when they get back to it.

That and the apathy in the people here voting or more to the point not voting in these smaller elections, which are barely noticed, and that for a reason, they don’t want them noticed.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago

I am in North Carolina and I know the Board of Elections is controlled by Democrats, as are many of the Boards of Elections nationwide. This has been a long term project of the Democratic Party; funding the left wing Democrat takeover of Secretary of State positions and election boards. The Secretary of State in each state is the official administrator of elections and is over all the state and local elections boards. In NC that is generally run by Democrats. NC used to have and still has a large percentage of conservative Democrats that can’t seem to understand that their party is entirely run by the Communist Party funding machine such as the Soros family.

I am grateful to True the Vote, the Trump campaign,and everyone else who stood up for a clean electoral process. NC is rapidly being turned to the Left even though the state as a whole is not left wing.

very old white guy
very old white guy
3 years ago

More insanity to come. Only a verified vote should be counted and by verified I mean the person who cast that vote can prove they did, that they are a citizen and live where the vote was to be cast,

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
3 years ago

This is an easy case. When the election sites close, all ballots not received after that time —— are to be DISCARDED.

Shlomo Shekelstein
Shlomo Shekelstein
3 years ago

An upright “democrat” as the Jews only can want him. Formally
patriotic with a sharp tongue. Privately “associated” with a man.
https://3speak.co/watch?v=rairfoundation/dkotgohx
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Grosz

Jeanne Ballard
Jeanne Ballard
3 years ago

After Nov. 3 all ballots should be in and counted. For crying out loud These voters have had all year to make up their minds

Roland
Roland
3 years ago

Any vote not received by election day, November 3rd, should not be counted. It’s not like we have not had enough notice that there is an election coming up. This extension is BS. Get your lazy asses off of the couch and vote. Waddle out to the mailbox if you want to vote that way. We have made it so easy for people to vote there should be no excuses for being tardy. This is not like a term paper in high school where the teacher could grant you a couple of extra days for a good reason. This is a national election with serious consequences. Allowing extra days allows for the cheaters to extend their game and they will take any advantage they can.

noitaint
noitaint
3 years ago

This case should be a “Slam Dunk! after Wisconsin’s similar case.

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