Using my brother’s grammar…
"Where’s darr at?
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Just give the people a stamp. That’s literally all it takes to remedy this.
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Reach is a good thing:
"Friday night was rocking in Nevada, particularly in Clark County, where hundreds were still waiting in line on the last night of early voting to…vote. And vote they were.
According to Nevada reporter Jon Ralston, records were smashed Friday, with well over 55,000 voting and more waiting in line. Polling locations were held open so everyone could have an opportunity to cast their votes."
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Thanks for this.
Call me paranoid, but I’d only feel ok about this if it were the equivalent of a mobile polling station, with all the same regulations and formality. Given that, however, would be nice to have.
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When do we find out about the consent decree?
No excuses, now: Dems in AZ need to get off their butts and get to the polls. Period. They just need to take a cue from Nevada, yesterday, where the long lines at Cardenas’ Market lasted all day, until everyone got a chance to vote…
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From this article it just means that this thing called The Purcell Principle stays in effect. Essentially, that means not changing any election law so close to an election. SCOTUS didn’t rule on the changes in the law handed down by the 9th Circuit regarding AZ election law as much as it just put a hold on deciding the case until January. A hold on “Ballot-harvesting” appears to mean a “hold for now that had stopped enforcement of an Arizona law that made third-party collection of early voting ballots a felony.” Someone correct me if I’m wrong…
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What this decision means is that at least one of the “liberal” justices went along with the ones on the right.
You’d think by now that the court would have learned that involving itself in elections on a shoot-from-the-hip basis is a bad idea. Bad for the court. Bad for the law.
Too bad none of the justices dissented.
Another old practice was for unions to require ballots be brought to HQ, where bosses would tell which local judge or representative should get voted for. The unions would then deliver the ballots to make sure the powers that be knew who ‘delivered’ the votes. .
And also …
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They are ready to set fire to the White House.
Once again the Whore Court gives a blank check to the Republican Party
somewhat o/t: judges should be prepared to work overtime.
please hum if you see a familiar state on that list.
This is one of those issues where there is a legitimate basis for the ban. The concern is that people could be strong-armed or intimidated into casting ballots (or even filling them out a certain way). That’s probably why at least one liberal justice pealed away from the Democratic preferred outcome. It’s alright. We’ll just have to get back to getting people to the polls.
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My absentee ballot came, return postage paid (mine was in Wisconsin, which isn’t exactly a bastion of Democracy). Are we sure it really costs the voter in AZ to mail the ballot back in. My point here is that, with return postage paid, there’s an out for not needing this service. Anyone can drop the ballot into a mailbox. Anyone.
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I voted absentee this year, here in Virginia. The envelope was not pre-stamped. That said, it only required one stamp.
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I don’t know what the situation is in AZ. I’ve voted absentee in California in the 1970s, and I had to pay postage to return my ballots. I knew that Oregon (and I presume Washington) pay return postage, but they have an entirely-by-mail election process. I wasn’t aware of other jurisdictions that pay the postage.
All I know is that 37 million early votes have been cast nationwide, according to the Wall Street Journal as of Friday. There’s some very promising news in this article.
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From an earlier post on a different thread.
OT, but an interesting twist. By the GOP refusing to help bail out Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans have flocked to Florida where they are voting yugely for HRC.
The little island that could have a big impact on Trump’s chances
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