In a victory for President Trump and election security, a federal appeals court has temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election.
A lower court judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, had sided with Democrats to extend the deadline to count ballots until November 9th. This appeals court ruling has returned the due date to 8 p.m. on Election Day.
Democrats have insisted that an extension is necessary due to the higher volume of absentee ballots.
The Democratic National Committee, Wisconsin Democrat Party, the League of Women Voters, and other Democrat-allied groups sued to extend the deadline for counting ballots after the disastrous April presidential primary, which saw long lines, a shortage of workers, fewer polling places, and thousands of ballots mailed days after the election.
On September 21st, U.S. District Court Judge William Conley ruled that ballots that arrive up to six days after Election Day will be counted, as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. The decision by the appeals court to halt this extension put’s Conley’s decision on hold until further action is issued by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court.
It is estimated that as many as two million people in Wisconsin will be casting absentee ballots to avoid the risk of contracting COVID at the polls. According to Conley, this is around three times the number of absentee ballots cast in any previous election in the state, and could overwhelm the postal service and election officials.
The Republican National Committee, the Wisconsin GOP, and Wisconsin’s Republican legislators have argued that the current rules for absentee voting should remain in place, and that people have plenty of time to return their ballots.
Conley’s ruling also extended the deadline for registering to vote by mail or electronically by seven days, and allowed poll workers to work in any county, not just where they live, due to concerns that the state may not have enough workers to staff polling places.
President Trump won Wisconsin by less than 1 percentage point in 2016, which was just under 23,000 votes. Polls show that Joe Biden has a slight lead in the key battleground state.
Now with the mail running later and later, something needs to be done, to allow for extra time for the ballots to get in. In some peoples opinion that is why the new post master was put in place to actually slow down election mail, and it is quite apparent it is working. The VA pharmacy place that my prescriptions come from about 300 miles away in my state, my prescription in 10 years have never been late and in the past 2 months, one prescription did not arrive at all and the other three were about 3 days to a week late arriving.
Now exactly why would anyone attempt to slow down the mail just before an election where there are more afraid of getting sick from voting,
e is not one reason, why you cannot vote in person, NONE! Quit your whining!
How about take your Ballot directly to the election office? In MY States ( Arizona) there election ballot boxes placed all over the cities. PLUS, early voting Ballots are being mailed out NOW! So, please STOP your idiotic idea that stupid lazy fcking people can not mail their ballots back on time! Only a crooked lying Democrat can think this stuff up.
Fake Polls is what caused dimRats to contract TDS or better known as Trump Derangement Syndrome in 2016…They are at it again… Biden has Never led in this race and Never will. THE POLLS ARE FAKE JUST LIKE 2016…… TRUMP/PENCE 2020 will be a historic Defeat for Democrats and Joe The Perv.
Common legal sense rearing its head? I hope so.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON THAT WE CANNOT VOTE IN PERSON LIKE NORMAL. IF THE PEOPLE CAN PROTEST, RIOT, BURN THEIR CITIES DOWN, MURDER, GO SHOPPING, GO TO WORK, PUT GAS IN THEIR CARS, WALK THEIR DOG ETC.,ETC. THEN THERE IS NO REASON THEY CAN’T VOTE IN PERSON AT A POLLING PLACE LIKE ALWAYS AND AVOID ALL THIS CHEAT BY MAIL MESS THAT IS CAUSING ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS ALREADY.
The reason fewer people are voting than should be is the “improvements” made by Democrats to increase vote totals. Only citizens are allowed to vote (14th amendment says citizens by birth or by naturalization). All real citizens have either a birth certificate or naturalization papers which prove their eligibility to vote-so why are electricity bills and driver’s licenses used to prove citizenship? Voting happens every two years on the first Tuesday in November-it is possible to get absentee ballots if traveling, sick or have other issues which prevent in person voting. Before the Democrats started screwing with the vote about 63% of the eligible population voted (1970). This used to be all one needed to know to vote. Today, some non-citizens are allowed to vote in local elections, but not (wink, wink) in national elections-but there is no certainty that vote counters have ways to tell whether a voter is supposed to vote, or not. We can register to vote on election day-I guess the two years since the last election wasn’t enough time to get registered. Voting starts 4 to 6 week early in many states-we have to give everybody a chance to vote, you know. Then, if one is voting by mail he gets a ballot about a month ahead of election day, but he needs a six or nine day extension in case the mail is late. Voting age was decreased from 21 years old to 18 years old-the argument was, if soldiers can be sent to war when they are 18, they should have a vote to determine whether a war monger is elected (but, routinely Democrats simply discard soldier’s votes because they tend to vote Republican). After all of these improvements, almost all of which improves Democrat chances for voter fraud, the citizens voting is 55% of the population (oh, wait-that’s a loss of voters). If you want people to start voting again, get universal voter registration (picture ID), have everybody vote on election day (absentee ballots can still be used, but one should have to ask for them). Count all the votes and announce the winners on election evening. Have every vote produce a paper ballot for recount purposes, etc. If folks know their vote will count, they will be back.
If they can take their mail in vote to stations around town . Why can’t they just vote there in person with ID .makes no sense that they can’t . Only reason they can’t is to rig the elections like their doing already
If people can riot in the streets,go shopping at big demon rat donors stores and Pelosi can get her hair done then people can stand in line and VOTE in PERSON !!!!