Posted on 11/11/2020 10:04:23 PM PST by rintintin
Lin Wood @LLinWood I again call upon Georgia Governor Brian Kemp @BrianKempGAto timely order special session of GA legislature to address unlawful & void 11/3 election resulting from 3/6/20 consent agreement with Democratic Party by @GaSecofState .
Don’t play political games with our votes, Brian. 3:42 PM · Nov 11, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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I thought everything needed to be done by the meeting the Electoral College December 14.
Both soon going to jail!
When no legislative action happens, courts fill the void. If Georgia Supreme Court is silent then SCOTUS fills the vacuum.
We’re a federal government.
The Supreme Court can’t overrule a state Legislature on federal elections.
Not now that it has a majority who respect the Constitution...
Hope the Ga Legislature rises to the occasion.
Kemp is deep state. That explains a lot.
Lin Wood has more honor in his little pinky than that dirty RINO Kemp.
I certainly hope he is saying that as I believe that is the ONLY way we can turn this around. Same for PA. It must be argued that there is so much fraud that ALL voters both Republican and Democrat have been disenfranchised. The only logical remedy for BOTH sides is to nullify the elections in the six contested battleground states and hold a new special election with proper transparency and authentication by both sides. No mail in ballots. Vote in person or certified absentee and that's it.
Go Lin Go
Lol
Usually we hate trial lawyers here
Funny isn’t it
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What consent agreement? I searched the internet found nothing on it.
dec 12
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution link is broken.
State agrees to absentee ballot changes after lawsuit
POLITICS Nov 30, 2018
By Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia’s top elections official agreed Friday to allow the counting of absentee ballots that arrive after the Dec. 4 runoff, following a lawsuit filed by state Democrats claiming that delays in sending out the ballots resulted in “arbitrary and disparate treatment” of voters.
A federal judge approved a consent order between Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden and state Democrats who brought the lawsuit because dozens of counties didn’t send out the ballots until this week.
Absentee ballots must usually be received by Election Day to be counted, but under the agreement they will still be tallied if they’re postmarked as late as Dec. 4 and received by Dec. 7.
The compromise could affect a large number of voters in the runoff, which will decide the secretary of state’s race and a Public Service Commission seat. At least 121,000 voters have submitted an application for absentee mail-in ballots in the runoff election.
The agreement is the latest development in an ongoing legal battle over voting rights waged by the Democratic Party of Georgia, voting rights groups and Stacey Abrams’ new advocacy organization.
It involves a fuzzy part of state election rules guiding runoff elections. Georgia law requires county officials to send absentee ballots to eligible applicants “as soon as possible” after the results of the general election are certified, but it does not set a deadline.
And it triggered a new round of finger-pointing between parties that have long feuded over ballot access issues.
In the lawsuit, Democrats said at least 65 counties waited until earlier this week to mail their first absentee ballots. With mail delivery taking several days to reach households in parts of the state, the party warned the delay risks disenfranchising voters.
Party chair DuBose Porter said in a court document that without an extension, voters “will lose their fundamental right to vote because their ballots will have been sent to them too late to cast a ballot that will be counted.”
Crittenden said through a spokeswoman her office worked as quickly as possible to prepare the ballots but couldn’t do so until the general election results were certified. She said their efforts were delayed by a federal court ruling sought by Democrats that prevented the certification of the vote until Nov. 16.
“We told the Democratic Party when they initially sought to delay certification that doing so would adversely impact run-off procedures,” said the spokeswoman, Candice Broce, adding: “If they had come to us first, we would have tried to work with them to resolve this problem.”
Georgia GOP chair John Watson described it as a part of a more cynical Democratic strategy to “drag the process out as long as possible, and then sue over the delay they caused.”
Democrats, meanwhile, claimed victory at a press conference on the steps of the federal courthouse. John Barrow, the party’s nominee for secretary of state, said it’s another sign that changes to voting laws are needed next year.
“We’re doomed to have a lot more problems if we don’t fix them,” said Barrow. “And I’m committed to fixing them.”
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The runoff for secretary of state and a Public Service Commission seat is Dec. 4.
Absentee ballots must usually be received by Election Day to be counted, but the lawsuit asked that county officials treat them more like military absentee ballots. That means they can be postmarked as late as Dec. 4 and received by Dec. 7.
At least 121,000 voters have submitted an application for absentee mail-in ballots in the runoff election.
You are partly correct and partly wrong. SCOTUS has overruled a state Legislature before on a myriad of issues. However, SCOTUS tries not to get involved and does its utmost to stay out of election related affairs deferring to the state supreme courts.
The court has no part in this. If the state has no slate of electors on 12/14, then the state has no vote, and the number of electors from that state is subtracted from the electoral votes needed to win the election.
That is not the constitutional solution but I agree it may be the best way to solve this. The state does have a constitutional remedy, however, and that is for the legislature to appoint the electors.
What 3/6/20 Democrat agreement?
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