On October 23, Jill Stein asked the U.S. District Court in Ohio to stay its own ruling, and also prepared paperwork to go to the Sixth Circuit, in Stein v LaRose. This is the case over whether votes for Stein should be counted. The U.S. District Court had refused to adjudicate the case, saying that it should have been filed in state court.
In the Sixth Circuit, the case is 24-3923.
To not count votes is to deprive voters of their right to vote. It doesn’t matter if a candidate is ineligible; the voter has a right to vote for that candidate. Ultimately, Congress or state legislatures have the power to determine whether or not a winner is qualified to serve. But no one can take a qualified voter’s vote away before Congress or the legislature has the final say on whether or not a candidate is qualified.
We had this whole debate during the primaries when folks tried to remove Trump’s name from the primary ballots. The principles haven’t changed between then and now.
https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vote-Count-Expectations-2024.pdf
PREZ RESULTS- 7 MARG STATES
MICH – AT LEAST 1-2 DAYS AFTER POLLS CLOSE
The fact that Stein didn’t state a Vice Presidential candidate is beside the point. If her electors are qualified, there is no problem. If, somehow, they get elected, they are still pledged to vote for Stein for President, but are unpledged for Vice President, and are thereby free to vote for whomever they please for Vice President.
I don’t expect the court to agree with you.
Yep, unfortunately, allowing the electoral college to actually perform its function, would make far too much sense for a court to ever allow it.
What should and should not be is not my area of expertise or interest. I specialize only in prediction.
ANY PREDICTIONS RE –
NOV 2024 USA PREZ WINNER ???
START OF USA CIVIL WAR II ???
START OF WW III ???
ALL 3 CONNECTED ???
I predict that whichever retard troll moron wins, we all lose.
I predict a 269 – 269 tie in the Electoral College. This thing won’t be decided until January.
Are you the Pat that Thomas W Jones obsessed over for years?
I think that’s a different Pat.
Different.
@Walter
Agree in spirit. But show me any court decision or federal law that mandates that an eligible voter’s vote shall be *counted*.
I think that’s why kreskin predicted the correct way.