'Do not wait': Court cases throw late-arriving votes into doubt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Voters in several key swing states are now rolling the dice if they mail in their ballots, with their votes potentially jeopardized if they don't arrive by Election Day.

A court ruling about Minnesota on Thursday evening effectively moved up the deadlines for mail-in ballots to be received by the state, from a week after Election Day to 8 p.m. on November 3. And several Supreme Court orders earlier in the week left in place windows after Election Day for mailed ballots to be received by Pennsylvania and North Carolina -- but didn't resolve questions about the constitutionality of those votes.

The unresolved legal questions in the major battlegrounds has prompted a flurry of political leaders, especially Democrats, to urge voters to no longer rely on the mail for casting their absentee votes. They've warned that voters are now past the safe window for mailed ballots to arrive on time and be counted.

"Do not wait," Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said Thursday. "At this point, voters should hand-deliver their ballots to be assured their vote will be counted."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/do-not-wait-court-cases-throw-late-arriving-votes-into-doubt/ar-BB1axugz?ocid=NL_ENUS_D1_20201030_3_2

[beachbumbob]

1. not like we didn't know right?

[Thekaspervote]

2. Exactly...not sure why anyone would have trusted their ballot to the mail, even wks ago!!

[Johnny2X2X]

3. This stuff backfired big time on Trump

People voted early, they got their ballots sent ASAP, In some states well over 90% of absentee ballots are already back. The result is going to be historic turnout. Sure some more ballots will get thrown out or not counted because of it, but the net results will be tens of millions of more ballots being counted still.

And this all is going to have a bad effect on Republican voters. They will face perhaps longer lines to vote, and it's the Republican mail in ballots that probably are waiting until the last second to be mailed because their media hasn't been warning them about the USPS delays that Trump has made.

We're going to see 20 million more votes than in 2016, that's in part because of this backfiring.