Democrats and Republicans are engaged in a furious struggle over voting rights. In almost every instance, Democrats are trying to make it easier for Americans to cast ballots, and Republicans are trying to make it harder.
Much of the fight involves voting by mail, which many people would prefer to do this year, to minimize their risk of contracting the coronavirus at a polling place. Lawyers have already filed more than 300 lawsuits, across 44 states, over issues related to pandemic voting. The most important cases are in the battleground states on which the presidential election or Senate control could hinge.

Here are the latest developments:

Pennsylvania: The state’s highest court has ruled that election officials should count mailed ballots that arrive up to three days after Election Day. Pennsylvania Republicans are trying to get the Supreme Court to reverse the order, so that only ballots received by Election Day will count.

North Carolina: Republicans and the Trump campaign have asked the Supreme Court to block the state’s board of elections from extending the deadline to receive mail ballots. The board has said ballots can arrive until Nov. 12, as long as they were mailed by Election Day.

Wisconsin: The five Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court sided on Monday with Republican officials in Wisconsin, ruling that ballots must arrive by 8 p.m. on Election Day to count. (A lower-court ruling would have allowed state officials to count any mailed ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to six days later.) In response, the state’s Democratic Party is urging voters to return mail ballots in person — to a drop box or clerk’s office — rather than mailing them.

Nevada: The Trump campaign has sued to stop the counting of absentee ballots in the Las Vegas area, evidently hoping to challenge the signatures on many ballots. Last night, the campaign and Nevada Republican Party filed a separate lawsuit, seeking detailed information on the vote-counting process.

Texas: The state’s top court yesterday upheld a policy announced by Greg Abbott, the Republican governor, which limits each county to a single drop-off box for mailed ballots. The state’s largest county — Harris, which includes Houston — is home to 4.7 million people.

Michigan: A conservative judge yesterday overturned an order by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, and ruled that people could carry unconcealed guns at polling places on Election Day.

In many of these cases, Republicans have argued that changing voting rules because of the pandemic could lead to fraud (a claim that’s largely baseless) and that allowing ballots to be counted after Election Day leads to confusion and chaos.

Democrats have argued that protecting people’s right to vote, during a national crisis, should be top priority. Democrats have also pointed out that some Republicans have changed their position on the counting of mailed ballots: When late-arriving ballots seemed likely to help George W. Bush in Florida in 2000, Republicans argued that the state should count them.

For more: Factcheck.org catalogs the false statements that President Trump made yesterday about voting. In Lawfare, Zahavah Levine explains the flurry of recent lawsuits. In The Washington Post, the election-law expert Richard Hasen analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent rulings. And The Times offers advice about making sure your mailed ballot counts.

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There's no fraud... or not enough to matter anyway. What's the point? Think about it... it's not rational. You don't get any direct gain from doing it but the punishment is astronomical relative to amount you get because you don't get sh*t.

So in order to try it, you would have to be really stupid (the ones trump is trying to get to "test the system"), or just be at a point in your life when you really just don't give a f*** (probably old and dying).

In either case, it's not enough to matter in all but the most extreme and unlikely cases.

Nothing in your article invalidated anything I said.

My buddy's grandma will be collecting and completing 18 ballots this year... she had 4 more grandkids hit voting age since the last election...

Ya... kinda makes your opening sentence seem dumb...

The real concern is that once the votes are counted on election night and there appears to be a winner, in certain key states over the following few days a few boxes of tens of thousands of votes show up and the election flips.

This is the kind of thing coups are made of. It is already clear that the media has chosen the winner. Now we just need to make the numbers fit.

I have no problem with the grandmother completing her family members' ballots for them- if that is what her grandchildren wish (providing there is not doing anything illegal).

Other than than knowing who he wanted to vote for President, my son wanted me to fill in the down-ballot for him because he happens to know nothing about it. So, I filled my son's ballot for him after he told me to who he wanted to vote for President. My daughter called me to asked my advice and did what I told her to on the state constitutional amendment . She filled it out exactly like I told her to.

Nothing wrong worth offering/getting help or having someone fill out your ballot for you. Hell, in Florida, you can have someone vote for you at the poll if you are unable to yourself. Just bring them along. Or, ask an election worker for help.

Ya, Consuela gets the ballots cuz her grandkids don't wanna be the one she hates... woman drinks like a fish and beats her husband like he's a sack of flour...

It is very important to uphold the appearance that elections are run fairly. The media has been pounding the narrative that Biden will win solidly. If it looks good for Biden and then over the course of the next few days tens of thousands of Trump votes roll in and it swings the election, cities will burn and people will die. This is already pretty much promised anyway if Trump wins but it could be far worse if there is an appearance of shenanigans.

#gimmebackmybullets

Kinda, sorta, like "Dewey Defeats Truman"?

LOLOLOL!!!


Like you were ever going to go to Oakland!!!

If effective enough we call it gentrification.

If Trump loses, my Chinese lookin azz is stayin home...too many offended militiamen will be out target acquisitioning, complaining about too few bullets...

yet the one claiming that this important pillar of our country is a sham is the President of the United States of America.
And he started loooooong ago.

That's the sad part, the leader of the free world undermining our basic institutions of freedom, trashing them relentlessly while still having offered no proof as solid as Opie's Grandmother tale.

sorry Smooth light...there will be no act two...

Trump's behavior in the last few months, especially after he caught the COVID, enduring the reality of life during a pandemic that proved too difficult for him to manage, has shown us that he's essentially going through the motions, spending up his campaign chest what he couldn't shift into his personal accounts....he's basically given up...

and there are very few GOP peeps campaigning for him...most GOP candidates running for office are trying to distance themselves


on Nov 3, or shortly thereafter, he's gonna hear the majority of Americans say, "You're Fired!!!"

Act 2 : is going to be GREAT!
fakes and the snowflakes going insane, it's all Joe's fault, and Nancy too.

Boo who on you, enjoy whining and dining in mom's basement.

mom said "Joe can't stay here, no way in hell."

even the lib leaning LA Times ran a story about a lib Black female buying her very first gun because she's become frightened of how politics under Trump have unleashed intolerance and hatred and pulled back the veneer of civility that used to be the norm...she has sensed more open hostility while going out in public to work or shop...

being nice to "other" people is so "Politically Correct, F*** that"





I'm suspicious of my next door neighbors...they have a 6'x8' Trump-Pence 2020 banner hanging from their front porch...I know he's got a cache of semi-auto rifles and handguns and thousands of rounds of ammo...pretty sure he's a Bugaloo Boy fan, since he wears Hawaiian shirts occasionally...I always hear Rush or Sean blaring from their radios and TVs...

I knew I'd regret giving him permission to marry my daughter...he converted her from a lefty into a right wing-nut...