"To be clear: There isn't a *single* state that certifies its results *on* Election Day."

[Nevilledog]

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Steve Vladeck
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To be clear: There isn't a *single* state that certifies its results *on* Election Day. When elections are called, it's because of media *projections,* not the "final total." Indeed, federal law gives states at least five *weeks* to certify their results:

https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/5
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7:21 PM · Oct 26, 2020

[Thekaspervote]

1. He is the dumbest crow in the flock!!

[Nevilledog]

2. He's got stiff competition for that distinction.

[Blue Owl]

3. Shut the fuck up Donny

n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Even Kavanaugh isn't saying the results need to be known on election day.

But Trump better be careful what he wishes for. It's possible Biden is up in a lot of states by the end of Tuesday night.

[elleng]

5. federal law gives states at least five *weeks* to certify their results:

[Alex4Martinez]

6. How does that square with Wisconsin vis a vis the Scotus ruling?

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/928046044/supreme-court-blocks-wisconsins-ballot-extension-plan

[regnaD kciN]

7. It doesn't...

...and we better get used to a lot of examples of the "originalist" SCOTUS essentially re-writing the Constitution to make sure Trump gets another term.

[TheRealNorth]

9. My understanding

Is that the state law that requires that ballots be received by election night. So essentially the Supreme Court upheld the state law. I am not sure if that was a long standing law, or if it is something that Snotty Walker & Robin Vos forced through prior to Tony Evers.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/26/u-s-supreme-court-declines-change-wisconsins-voting-rules/3670662001/

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. This ruling is about when ballots must arrive, not when they are counted

If they arrive by 11/3, they can be counted anytime up to 12/8 to meet the safe harbour date.

Ballots arriving after 11/3 are rejected, but that is a separate issue.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. Trump has no legal grounds to stop counting on 11/3, SCOTUS has no jurisdiction. Nt

[nilram]

11. Setting the expectation and ensuring it's not met.

[Mister Ed]

12. Exactly. n/t