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Kavanaugh Fixes Error in Election Opinion After Vermont Complaint
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh made a correction to a concurring opinion after Vermont officials pointed out that he mistakenly said the state had not changed its election rules.
Though not unheard-of, such revisions are rare, experts said, adding that Justice Kavanaughs change highlighted the courts fast pace in handling recent challenges to voting rules.
In the opinion, which was issued on Monday and alarmed Democrats worried about mail ballots being counted, Justice Kavanaugh wrote that while some states had changed their rules around voting in response to the pandemic, others had not.
States such as Vermont, by contrast, have decided not to make changes to their ordinary election rules, including to the election-day deadline for receipt of absentee ballots, he wrote in his original concurring opinion, which was attached to the 5-to-3 ruling against the deadline extension in Wisconsin.
On Wednesday, two days after the ruling, he (Vermonts secretary of state, Jim Condos) wrote to Scott S. Harris, the clerk of the court, and said Vermont had made two key changes this year: All active, registered voters had received a ballot and a prepaid envelope, and election officials were authorized to start processing the ballots in the 30 days leading up to Election Day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-vermont.html
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I figured Justice Boof would reject Vermont's reality and substitute his own for the sake of his opinion.
tanyev
(42,541 posts)a kennedy
(29,642 posts)AND ITS THE ONLY THING I WILL EVER REMEMBER ABOUT HIM FOREVER. I hate this drunk.
torius
(1,652 posts)Apparently so
a kennedy
(29,642 posts)malaise
(268,856 posts)How fucking unprofessional is that?
underpants
(182,734 posts)No one researched that?
malaise
(268,856 posts)No surprise
handmade34
(22,756 posts)he's a good man... he was right on top of this
Blue Owl
(50,335 posts)n/t
underpants
(182,734 posts)BainsBane
(53,026 posts)If so, he shouldn't have allowed this.