On August 4, the Trump for President committee and the Republican National Committee filed a federal lawsuit against the new Nevada law on postal balloting. Donald J. Trump for President v Cegavske, 2:20cv-1445. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Kent J. Dawson, a Clinton appointee.
The lawsuit does not attack everything in the new law, which was signed on August 3 and which takes effect immediately. It challenges the part of the new law that says postal ballots without a postmark are deemed to have been mailed by election day if the ballot arrives by the Friday after election day. The Complaint says that this will permit some postal voters to vote the day after the election, and that Congress has already established that election day is on Tuesday.
The lawsuit challenges the disparity in the number of vote centers in various counties. Voter centers are places where voters can vote, if they would rather not vote by mail, or if they want to hand their postal ballot directly to election officials. The lawsuit says the new rule on vote centers discriminates against certain rural counties.
The lawsuit challenges the new law’s provision that if a postal ballot envelope arrives at the office of the election officials with two voted ballots inside, the local election officials have discretion to decide if both ballots should be counted, or whether to invalidate both ballots. Presumably the legislature was anticipating that in many households with two voters, the two voters might decide to enclose both of their ballots inside the same envelope, and presumably both voters would sign the outside of the envelope. The lawsuit says that county discretion is too great, and therefore the standards are not equal across the state.
Finally, the lawsuit challenges the new law for giving county election officials too much discretion over how to tally ballots. Here is the Complaint.
What MORONS put 2 ballots inside ONE ABS return ballot envelope ???
The first angle of the suit has a chance.
The second, none.
The third, who knows? On that, Demo Rep, people living on fixed incomes, among others, might be saving even money for a few stamps.
ABS ballots = replacement for in-person voting on election days.
ALL the post election day stuff is illegal in ALL States having specified constitutional election days [primary and gen] – many gen days tied to USA gen days.
Post election day stuff — ALL part of the RED COMMUNIST machinations to take over the USA
— along with election day new registrations [aka same day voting], rigged gerrymander commissions, etc.
U mad bro?
An issue in the contested New York elections is that the USPS apparently did not realize that postage paid return envelopes had to be postmarked.
There’s zero evidence that postal elections are any more fraudulent than in person. Trump is trying to cook up an excuse to cancel, postpone or steal the election. He is a crook who knows his goose is cooked when he leaves office, so his plan is to just not leave and essentially carry out a coup making himself the dictator. Of course, he has always looked up to and tried to emulate dictators so this is hardly surprising in the least.
@Jim Riley – The USPS’S now has special “Service Type ID” for Ballot Mail, which I believe is new within the past couple of years. Hopefully, that will help them to separate ballots for postmarking and tracking.
Even trump, his family and top aides mostly all vote by mail.