On October 1, after another oral argument, the Maine State Supreme Judicial Court refused to stay its earlier opinion about the Republican Party-sponsored referendum petition on ranked choice voting for president. Now the Maine Republicans are expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
The issue is not about the validity of ranked choice voting. It is about whether the Republican referendum petition should have been accepted by the Secretary of State. The petition had enough valid signatures, but some of the signatures were disallowed because some circulators were not registered to vote in the town in which they were working, when they started working (later they changed their registration to comply with the law). The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that states can’t require petitioners to be registered voters, so the Maine Supreme Court did not follow binding precedent.
EACH STATE IS A SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE.
1776 DOI – LAST PARA
1777 ART CONFED
1783 USA-BRIT PEACE TREATY
1787 ART VII
NAME OF USA REGIME — UNITED ***STATES*** [PLURAL] OF AMERICA.
TOO MANY SCOTUS MORON HACKS TO COUNT – IN THE 1999 CASE AND MANY OTHER CASES.
INTERNAL STATE POLITICS — OTHERS STAY OUT.
These folk, just need to stop by this point, and just accept it two things. One, they truly have no time left to trying get it appeal by the national supreme court (even through the US constitution, has no decree on which voting system method for the presidential elections, thus its technically legal of switching an old voting system to a new one for presidential elections). And two, they need for them, just move on for now, and pathetically trying this again, after both early voting and election-day (by in-person) has both passed.
I don’t see the GOP winning this one.
It certainly put the Republicans in the awkward position of trying to justify ballot access.
Justice Barrett will save the day and throw out all ballots.
ARRESTS COMING SOON! Authorized TODAY! Step one!