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Eid Ma Clack Shaw

(490 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 04:20 AM Oct 2020

Many Blue States Insist Ballots are Received on Election Day

While several red ones allow a postmark of either 2nd / 3rd November.

You can go through them here:

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/909338758/map-mail-in-voting-rules-by-state?t=1603786102036

Look, I get the worry and I believe it’s an absurdity that there wasn’t a bipartisan national consensus which saw all states given a couple of extra days (at least) for mail ballots to arrive in the middle of a pandemic.

However, if ballots not being accepted after close of polls in a couple of swing states ends up being THAT crushing to Democratic hopes of wining the election, I think there are issues outside the reach of this tacky, partisan Supreme Court.

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Many Blue States Insist Ballots are Received on Election Day (Original Post) Eid Ma Clack Shaw Oct 2020 OP
Agree Thekaspervote Oct 2020 #1
At this stage no one should be mailing a ballot, but hand delivering it to a drop box or register still_one Oct 2020 #2
My husband will mask up and vote in person... WePurrsevere Oct 2020 #3
What's is(are) the word(s) behind the anagram "Eid Ma Clack Shaw"? skip fox Oct 2020 #4
It's a song by a musician named Bill Callahan Eid Ma Clack Shaw Oct 2020 #5
Well, it's original . . . Maybe not memorable, but who cares? skip fox Oct 2020 #6

still_one

(92,372 posts)
2. At this stage no one should be mailing a ballot, but hand delivering it to a drop box or register
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 04:40 AM
Oct 2020

of voters in my opinion

I mailed my mail in ballot some time ago, and it took five days to get there, and I am in California, a voting friendly state

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
3. My husband will mask up and vote in person...
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 07:40 AM
Oct 2020

He'll drop my absentee ballot off at that time since I trust him a lot more than the local, blue state but red area, USPS ATM.

Eid Ma Clack Shaw

(490 posts)
5. It's a song by a musician named Bill Callahan
Tue Oct 27, 2020, 08:55 AM
Oct 2020

I guess I was listening to that a lot and not feeling especially imaginative when I made this account.

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