Originally published at: Samuel Alito Is the Supreme Court’s Leading Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theorist - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Months before the 2020 election, as tens of millions of people prepared to vote by mail in the midst of a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump was already laying the groundwork for challenging the result if it…
But the Republican Party, with the Trump administration’s support, urged the Court to rule that grace periods are illegal, and that in order to count a ballot, a state must receive it by Election Day. Voters whose ballots are stuck somewhere in transit would be out of luck.
“and that in order to count a ballot, a state must receive it by Election Day” – I think the whining by Alito, if it had been successful, would not only toss out ballots received after election day, but would also rule out all mail-in ballots AND prohibit early voting, since those votes were not cast ON election day.
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Suppose like Shrodinger’s Cat the ballot until opened exists in a superposition of states with probable outcomes for all the candidates and only the act of counting forces a collapse of the wave function? What then Alito?
Alito doesn’t even pretend to be anything other than a Trump regime shill; he’s old, cranky and doesn’t give a shit.