What do folks make of the Supreme Court decision to not allow ballots to be counted in Wisconsin if they aren't received by 8:00 pm election night?
There was originally a 6-day extension planned, but the court ruled against this. People upset about this highlight that it also means that if a mail-in ballot is postmarked before Nov. 3rd it still won't be counted unless it fully arrives.
Quote (New York Times)
In one concurring opinion, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, joined by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, wrote that federal trial judges should not alter state voting rules when an election is looming. “Elections must end sometime, a single deadline supplies clear notice, and requiring ballots be in by Election Day puts all voters on the same footing,” Justice Gorsuch wrote.
“No one doubts that conducting a national election amid a pandemic poses serious challenges,” he wrote. “But none of that means individual judges may improvise with their own election rules in place of those the people’s representatives have adopted.”
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In a separate concurrence, Justice Kavanaugh wrote that “the Constitution principally entrusts politically accountable state legislatures, not unelected federal judges, with the responsibility to address the health and safety of the people during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/us/supreme-court-wisconsin-ballots.html