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SCOTUS: Federal elections end at midnight ON Election Day
World Net Daily ^ | November 3, 2022 | Devvy Kidd

Posted on 11/04/2022 10:02:26 AM PDT by fwdude

Foster v. Love, 522 U.S. 67, 71-72 is a 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down in 1997. The court had agreed to take up the issue of federal statutes vs. states' regarding election for federal offices and state election dates, ruling that "Election Day" means what it says: a singular day. The case that started it: Murphy J. Foster Jr., Governor of Louisiana, et al., Petitioners v. G. Scott Love, Paul S. Bergeron, Kathleen B. Balhoff, and Bennie Baker-Bourgeois.

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Constitutional attorney Ren Jander's Nov. 18, 2020, piece, "Elections Undecided by Midnight are Void & Preempted by Federal Law – Foster v Love (1997; 9-0 Decision)" is a thorough examination of that case and federal statutes. Jander wrote, "Federal Election Day statutes were designed to curtail fraud, and to infuse a prima facie sense of integrity in our electoral process. But these States – in failing to obey Congressional deadlines – have flagrantly attempted to preempt federal law. This is certainly prohibited, and this is why the late election results are void."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: corruption; elections
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I have to agree. Ballots have to be received BY Election Day to be counted, and counted ON Election Day. If you have to mail yours by special handling by FedEx to be sure, so be it.
1 posted on 11/04/2022 10:02:26 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Awww, c’mon. Sometimes it takes days or even weeks for the democrats to print enough ballots to steal elections.


2 posted on 11/04/2022 10:05:53 AM PDT by pawpawrick (I had a life once but my job ate it)
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To: fwdude

I remember the state court trying to dictate with the Gore fiasco...and they were told...sorry....this is a Federal Election and Federal rules apply...and that’s how it got to the Supreme Court.


3 posted on 11/04/2022 10:07:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: fwdude

Oregon is 100% mail-in, with postage paid return envelopes. And Oregon now allows ballots to be received after election day.


4 posted on 11/04/2022 10:08:24 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: fwdude

Elections Undecided by Midnight are Void & Preempted by Federal Law – Foster v Love (1997; 9-0 Decision)

11/03/2022 9:37:29 AM PDT · by Lockbox · 25 replies
The Post & Email ^ | November 18, 2020 | Ren Jander
“When the federal statutes speak of ‘the election’… they plainly refer to the combined actions of voters and officials meant to make a final selection of an officeholder… By establishing a particular day as ‘the day’ on which these actions must take place, the statutes simply regulate the time of the election, a matter on which the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the final say.” Foster v. Love (1997) We will take a closer at this binding precedent below, but in preview, please understand that it emanates from a 9-0 decision of the United States Supreme Court, wherein the entire Court...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4105895/posts


5 posted on 11/04/2022 10:08:58 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Ok, so if voting isn’t completed in numerous states by midnight election day in 2024 then Biden gets to remain President?

Just asking because the Constitution specifies a Presidential Election every 4 years. If the 2024 election can’t be certified because the vote count is incomplete, then the next Presidential Election is in 2028.


6 posted on 11/04/2022 10:09:04 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (;)
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To: fwdude

Complete nonsense.

Postmarked by midnight election day meets every requirement for every state and the Feds too.


7 posted on 11/04/2022 10:09:42 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: fwdude

I wish they’d rule that Election Day means Election Day.

No early voting.

No mail in voting except where somebody petitions for it and can show a need...eg sick/injured or infirm, or has to be out of state on business, etc. Those who fit this category to mail in their ballots via US post and it must be postmarked 3 days before election day.

You show up ON Election Day and you vote then. We did it that way for over 200 years. It worked.


8 posted on 11/04/2022 10:11:01 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Well, I meant if vote COUNT isn’t completed by midnight in my previous post.


9 posted on 11/04/2022 10:11:01 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (;)
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10 posted on 11/04/2022 10:13:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: fwdude

Sigh. Not this idiotic nonsense again.


11 posted on 11/04/2022 10:14:11 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Mariner

Just like an April 15 tax filing placed in the mail.


12 posted on 11/04/2022 10:14:59 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: fwdude

We must look pitiful to the rest of the world


13 posted on 11/04/2022 10:15:31 AM PDT by combat_boots ( )
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To: Roadrunner383

HOW about the 2020 Election that was NOT COMPLETE????


14 posted on 11/04/2022 10:16:49 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: FLT-bird

Make it a national holiday, vote in person.


15 posted on 11/04/2022 10:17:17 AM PDT by mykroar (Democrats support both types of allowed thought: Marxist and Leninist.)
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To: Mariner

RECEIVED is the KEY WORD.


16 posted on 11/04/2022 10:17:26 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: fwdude

The idea of allowing early voting should make it understandable that all votes need to be in by midnight.

None of this poor little voter didn’t have his vote counted crap. The voter had weeks to get is vote done.


17 posted on 11/04/2022 10:18:24 AM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: FLT-bird
First, I am sure you meant to include the military in your list of those approved, and on all of those, I agree.

Those who fit this category to mail in their ballots via US post and it must be postmarked 3 days before election day.

On the part I included above, I agree 1000%!! If you want your mail-in vote counted, it must be dated 3 days BEFORE (that is the Saturday before the election), so that it will reach the post office by election day, or maybe the day after. But, the clear majority will have their votes (including absentee voters) ON ELECTION DAY!
18 posted on 11/04/2022 10:19:10 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: pawpawrick

Remember the plane loads of lawyers and hanging chad, etc.?

Bandanna Republican!


19 posted on 11/04/2022 10:20:20 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: fwdude

Bingo


20 posted on 11/04/2022 10:21:44 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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