Maybe I don't understand the situation/your question, but - PA state guidelines say that ballots arriving after Nov 3 have to be kept separate. Alito just ruled to say - yes, do that. So presumably after they counted them they just kept them in a separate place, apart from the earlier ballots (and know how many there are in case they have to remove them from the count later).
Oh. No, this is just to set up a later legal battle, so in case these votes become invalidated (because they arrived late) they can't just go "oh, too late! they got mixed in with the rest"
Maybe, maybe not. The votes are being separated just in case, because who knows, better safe than sorry. Trump's lawyers will surely try to challenge their validity and bring it to court, I personally think it'll be an uphill battle - the Supreme court already said the late-arriving ballots would be valid in October. I've heard people talking about this other possible way to challenge them (ex: https://thedonald.win/p/11PpPMFUBD/trumps-path-in-penn-its-not-abou/c/) but that also seems like a tough sell.
But I'm not a lawyer, so that's just my uniformed take.
There'd be a huge scandal if they did that, polls didn't even close till 8 so basically none of the vote would have been counted. I mean, legally they had to separate them from the start. If they didn't, there'd be fines, arrests, but probably wouldn't change the final tally as (like I said) I don't think these votes will get overturned anyway.
Who knows, maybe the USPS can track the late arriving ballots. Either way, I wouldn't worry about this - that other plan I linked, that people seem to like more, has nothing to do with keeping the ballots separate.
I haven't heard anything about how they distinguish the the two. My guess is that there IS a way, and that it is a legal requirement to be able to track that for posterity, and Alito is throwing them a test.
Maybe I don't understand the situation/your question, but - PA state guidelines say that ballots arriving after Nov 3 have to be kept separate. Alito just ruled to say - yes, do that. So presumably after they counted them they just kept them in a separate place, apart from the earlier ballots (and know how many there are in case they have to remove them from the count later).
I'm curious on what separation g the ballots would do exactly. Would this show the amount of fraud their doing at all?
Oh. No, this is just to set up a later legal battle, so in case these votes become invalidated (because they arrived late) they can't just go "oh, too late! they got mixed in with the rest"
So its setting up for a court case?
Maybe, maybe not. The votes are being separated just in case, because who knows, better safe than sorry. Trump's lawyers will surely try to challenge their validity and bring it to court, I personally think it'll be an uphill battle - the Supreme court already said the late-arriving ballots would be valid in October. I've heard people talking about this other possible way to challenge them (ex: https://thedonald.win/p/11PpPMFUBD/trumps-path-in-penn-its-not-abou/c/) but that also seems like a tough sell.
But I'm not a lawyer, so that's just my uniformed take.
What if they are already mixed in? I assume they would look at vote count at 8pm and go off of those totals? Trump was winning at 8pm.
There'd be a huge scandal if they did that, polls didn't even close till 8 so basically none of the vote would have been counted. I mean, legally they had to separate them from the start. If they didn't, there'd be fines, arrests, but probably wouldn't change the final tally as (like I said) I don't think these votes will get overturned anyway.
Who knows, maybe the USPS can track the late arriving ballots. Either way, I wouldn't worry about this - that other plan I linked, that people seem to like more, has nothing to do with keeping the ballots separate.
I haven't heard anything about how they distinguish the the two. My guess is that there IS a way, and that it is a legal requirement to be able to track that for posterity, and Alito is throwing them a test.