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Home Front: Politix
Virginia Rule Allowing Late Ballots Missing Postmark Was Illegal, Court Rules
2021-01-27
[Daily Caller] The Virginia Board of Elections rule allowing officials to count ballots that arrived without a postmark up to three days after the election was illegal, a state judge ruled.

Virginia Circuit Court Judge William Eldridge ruled the state’s late mail-in ballot law violated state statute and permanently banned the law in future Virginia elections, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) announced Monday. PILF sued the state’s board of elections in October on behalf of Thomas Reed, a Frederick County, Virginia election official.

"This is a big win for the Rule of Law," PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said in a statement. "This consent decree gives Mr. Reed everything he requested — a permanent ban on accepting ballots without postmarks after Election Day and is a loss for the Virginia bureaucrats who said ballots could come in without these protections."
Posted by:Besoeker

#14  @#11. They could reject next day jump drive ballot harvesting for Jennifer Wexton and Abigail Spanberger; but they won’t.
Posted by: Airandee   2021-01-27 14:08  

#13  to #5 ... the fraud commes when the 'machine' rejects a ballot and sends it to a person or program that decides what the voter meant to markk. and then marks it accordingly. FFraud also occurs when ballots 'mysteriously' appear and miraculouly change a total. There were some msm programs where the live total mysteriously changed from 75% to 71% suddenly increasing the number od voters i a district.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2021-01-27 13:56  

#12  If no recount, thow the whole thing out. Redo, new military rules, like we do in 3rd world s-holes.
Posted by: Spavins Panda2219   2021-01-27 13:22  

#11  

OK !!!!!VA has a ruling.
But likely there is NO way to UN-COUNT the illegally allowed Ballots and UPDATE the election with the CORRECTED vote totals is there???


Posted by: NN2N1   2021-01-27 11:37  

#10  Lord Garth, But the duel ID requirement for mail voting ought to decrease the fraud by a significant amount.
Decreasing the fraud by any amount is exactly what the Dems don't want
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2021-01-27 11:30  

#9  going forward a good change to make for voting by mail would be to require both the last 4 SSN and also the driver's license (or State ID).

The SSN is needed because non citizens can only get a SSN with an approval from DHS.

The Driver's license is needed because the DL is linked to a home address in the State where the vote is cast and thus can be verified more easily.

Even with this augment there will be some fraud, e.g., people voting for recently deceased relatives, people voting by taking info from residents of long term facilities, people voting who have recently moved and still have their old driver's license and so forth. But the duel ID requirement for mail voting ought to decrease the fraud by a significant amount.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-01-27 10:56  

#8  Welcome Instapundit readers!
Posted by: Steve White   2021-01-27 10:40  

#7  the rule of law hasn't won yet. this will go through the legal process, hopefully all the way to the SC so that it's binding across the board.
Posted by: Herb Big Foot2665   2021-01-27 10:14  

#6  The local rag has the deets about Judge William Warner Eldridge IV. A former defense attorney, he was elevated to “Hizzoner” in 2015 when his predecessor stepped down for health reasons.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-01-27 09:05  

#5  This is a follow up.

Back in late Oct 2020, PILF got an injunction and late ballots w/o postmarks were not counted in the Nov 2020 VA election.

This next ruling makes the injunction permanent.

In any event the number of ballots in question is not particularly great. According to the USPS, fewer than 200,000 ballots nationwide were received after Nov 3, the vast majority of them with legible postmarks.

There are other issues with voting by mail, mainly the issue of identity. In Virginia, the application for a mail ballot required the last 4 of the voter's SSN and the security envelop with the ballot required the same. The Commonwealth stated that for all mail in ballots, the SSN on the application was matched with the SSN on the ballot. This was not as tight as in person voting which, in Virginia, required an actual ID, but it should have prevented large scale fraud.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-01-27 08:37  

#4  /\ China Joe ran a notional campaign. There was no need for a full-blown campaign effort. They already had it in the bag and they knew it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-01-27 07:49  

#3  Why do people on the left (Donks, Rinos, and DP) want to shut off any questions regarding election fraud? Biden's installment into the Presidency had about 100 attendees and 25-30,000 National Guard. He never had more than a handful of people attend the few rallies he had.

Maybe it's time to have a forensic audit on the ballots and returns from all of the states.

Was he really honestly elected?
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-01-27 07:45  

#2  A lot of bloody good this does now.
Posted by: Raj   2021-01-27 07:41  

#1  The Constitution is clear. It is the legislatures that determine the method of selecting electors, not the executive nor the judiciary.
Posted by: Procopius2k    2021-01-27 06:27  

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