States are free to handle their own election process.
States are NOT free to violate the Constitution and Equal Protection. The Texas AG gave an example where a State might place ballot collection boxes everywhere with no proper chain of custody. Can't do that.
Texas had a limited number of ballot boxes: 1 per county, per the Governor's order.
But, these "boxes" weren't simply on a street corner. The ballot must be presented to a poll worker, along with their identification. It must also be delivered by the voter, and not anyone else.
No, that's not at all what they're suggesting. In fact, it's quite the opposite. They're saying that these other states need to play by the same constitutional rules that everyone else has played by. Them not doing so has disenfranchised every other state because a state or small group of states can then literally dictate how a federal-level election turns out by just manipulating rules however they see fit.
TX is saying that it's not fair that THEY conducted a fair election while the 4 States in question did not. Thus, these 4 states playing clown games disenfranchises the TX voters who actually made their voices heard... versus 4 states flooded with fraudulent ballots.
TX is, as I understand it, calling their bluff and demanding they prove that their elections were conducted fairly. But all signs point to no, as these states seemingly violated the Constitution to begin with.
Federal elections require that each state conduct their elections fairly. State legislatures are given the power to make their rules, and so long as those rules are adhered to then regardless of how annoying or stupid the rules are, it ensures the idea of a fair election.
If states do not adhere to the rules or change the process without doing so through the legislature (who would need to follow their own established processes), then it has the effect of disenfranchising all of the other states because federal elections involve all 50 of them.
The lawsuit is claiming that because the states in the lawsuit did not follow the procedures they were supposed to follow, and because those broken procedures lead to irregularities, to validate their reported results would be an offense to the states who followed their own rules.
Its not arguing that states can't function independently or that one state should dictate another. It's simply calling out the fact that the states establish their own rules for how to constitutionally alter election rules, that these states did not do so, and that as a result, they cannot be treated the same way as the states who followed the rules.
Well you heard it here folks. If this case doesn't fly, basically, the constitution no longer matters.
States are free to handle their own election process. States are NOT free to violate the Constitution and Equal Protection. The Texas AG gave an example where a State might place ballot collection boxes everywhere with no proper chain of custody. Can't do that.
Texas had a limited number of ballot boxes: 1 per county, per the Governor's order.
But, these "boxes" weren't simply on a street corner. The ballot must be presented to a poll worker, along with their identification. It must also be delivered by the voter, and not anyone else.
This preserves the chain of custody.
This China Virus was used as an excuse to promote fraud with these Mail In Ballots.
90%+ of voters should have voted in person. The normal way. Where you sign in and present ID.
Instead, we have 50% of voters in these four corrupt states voting by Mail.With no proper verification.
No, that's not at all what they're suggesting. In fact, it's quite the opposite. They're saying that these other states need to play by the same constitutional rules that everyone else has played by. Them not doing so has disenfranchised every other state because a state or small group of states can then literally dictate how a federal-level election turns out by just manipulating rules however they see fit.
TX is saying that it's not fair that THEY conducted a fair election while the 4 States in question did not. Thus, these 4 states playing clown games disenfranchises the TX voters who actually made their voices heard... versus 4 states flooded with fraudulent ballots.
TX is, as I understand it, calling their bluff and demanding they prove that their elections were conducted fairly. But all signs point to no, as these states seemingly violated the Constitution to begin with.
Federal elections require that each state conduct their elections fairly. State legislatures are given the power to make their rules, and so long as those rules are adhered to then regardless of how annoying or stupid the rules are, it ensures the idea of a fair election.
If states do not adhere to the rules or change the process without doing so through the legislature (who would need to follow their own established processes), then it has the effect of disenfranchising all of the other states because federal elections involve all 50 of them.
The lawsuit is claiming that because the states in the lawsuit did not follow the procedures they were supposed to follow, and because those broken procedures lead to irregularities, to validate their reported results would be an offense to the states who followed their own rules.
Its not arguing that states can't function independently or that one state should dictate another. It's simply calling out the fact that the states establish their own rules for how to constitutionally alter election rules, that these states did not do so, and that as a result, they cannot be treated the same way as the states who followed the rules.