The court's 5-3 ruling means that absentee ballots will be counted only if they are in the hands of municipal clerks by the time polls close on Nov. 3.
The justices determined the courts shouldn't be the ones to decide the election rules amid the coronavirus pandemic that is surging in Wisconsin and across the world.
"The Constitution provides that state legislatures — not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state officials — bear primary responsibility for setting election rules," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion.
Sounds like a precedent to me right there.
It is a precedent. It's THE precedent. You'd just have to prove which ones were late. So, any ballot that got there after polls shut down are invalid. End of story.
Re-read:
If accurate, general implications re legislative dominance not just mail in after the 3rd.
Can we go back to California and remove mail in ballots from here as well? Our legislator and some congressmen were pretty upset that Gavin has changed the Elections laws without going threw the legislators.
"By signing Assembly Bill 860 into law, Newsom defused the principal legal argument against the universal vote-by-mail argument. Plaintiffs argued he had exceeded his authority by implementing a sweeping change to election management without consulting the Legislature."
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/06/18/california-lawmakers-pass-november-mail-ballot-bill-with-surprising-gop-support-1293679