Wouldn't it be terrible if VOTES were to "potentially flip the RESULTS of an election"?
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=117447
While I sympathize with Justice Kagen's opinion, the state law requires ballots to be
received by election day. That only requires you to use an official drop box or vote in person.
Democrats are trying to twist state laws before an election to game the system, imo. Long time rule not to change voting laws right before an election. States have a constitutional right to make their own rules.
Here is the decision,
Weeks before a national election, a Federal District Judge decreed that Wisconsin law violates the Constitution by requiring absentee voters to return their ballots no later than election day. The court issued its ruling even though over 30 States have long enforced the very same absentee voting deadline—and for understandable reasons: Elections must end sometime, a single deadline supplies clear notice, and requiring ballots be in by election day puts all voters on the same footing. “Common sense, as well as constitutional law, compels the conclusion that government must play an active role in structuring elections,” and States have always required voters “to act in a timely fashion if they wish to express their views in the voting booth.
... The judge in this case tacked 6 days onto the State’s election deadline, but what about 3 or 7 or 10, and what’s to stop different judges choosing (as they surely would) different deadlines in different jurisdictions? A widely shared state policy seeking to make election day real would give way to a Babel of decrees.
Link to the whole decision:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7276432/10-26-20-DNC-v-Wisconsin-SCOTUS-Order.pdf
Much better than the partisan, out of context snippets posted on the election law blog.
