Delaware Supreme Court: No-Excuse Mail-In Voting, Same-Day Registration Are Unconstitutional

[Galactic Spin]

The committed and the industrious will always find a way.

So what? Committal and industriousness are not and should not be requirements for voting. Only citizenship.

And you only care about lowering turnout. You aren't fooling anyone.

 

[Rawley]

Things may change by the time 2024 rolls around. They certainly already have.

By 2024, Biden will have drool cups.

 

[j brown's body]

I love this sleigh of hand. It's jut the law, it's not political:

Jane Brady, chair of the Delaware Republican Party...said the fight was over “rule of law” and not politics.

Yet Republicans will fight to keep the law.

"...the Supreme Court has made it clear that the expansion of voting access in the state will require constitutional amendments – which have previously been attempted and successfully blocked by Republicans."

Link

And the clean-up on isle 2020 continues.

States are closing voter loopholes

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In another huge win for election integrity this week, the Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that mail-in voting and same-day voter registration violates the state’s constitution.

In July 2022, Delaware’s General Assembly passed a law establishing no-excuse mail-in voting and same-day voter registration. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit against the law on behalf of Michael Mennella, an elections inspector for the Delaware Department of Elections, arguing such a law was unconstitutional (Delaware state law outlines only specific instances a person may vote by mail).

Delaware: Mail-in Voting And Same-Day Voter Registration Illegal

The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that mail-in voting and same-day voter registration violates the state's constitution.

thefederalist.com

I saw no reference to it being a loophole in your article. There are no claims of voter fraud in DE.

You all just don't like people voting.

 

[j brown's body]

I know Obama and Biden is no Obama.

Biden won't run again and, if he does, he'll get shellacked.

He's been far more effective than Obama.

 

[Galactic Spin]

I love this sleigh of hand. It's jut the law, it's not political:

Jane Brady, chair of the Delaware Republican Party...said the fight was over “rule of law” and not politics.

Yet Republicans will fight to keep the law.

"...the Supreme Court has made it clear that the expansion of voting access in the state will require constitutional amendments – which have previously been attempted and successfully blocked by Republicans."

Link


I saw no reference to it being a loophole in your article. There are no claims of voter fraud in DE.

You all just don't like people voting.

Obviously. That cat was let out of the bag years ao. That's the funniest part of watching these frauds ply their trade. It's asif they didn't get the memo that the secret was revealed years ago. Poor rubes.

 

[j brown's body]

Obviously. That cat was let out of the bag years ao. That's the funniest part of watching these frauds ply their trade. It's asif they didn't get the memo that the secret was revealed years ago. Poor rubes.

It's sad, man. Trump has them believing nothing but lies. They hitch their wagon to it, knowing they can't go against the base. But they see it as a ticket to power so, why not?

 

[Perotista]

"Cheating' that has never been proven, even in the slightest.
Republicans can only win when they can restrict voter turnout.
Voting should be made as easy as possible.

High voter turnout benefiting the Democrats is an old wife’s tale. Here’s the numbers to prove that. I used VAP since VEP was only kept track of beginning in 1980.

Average voter turnout since 1960 in presidential elections 55%.

2020 62% high Biden winner

2016 55% average, Trump winner

2012 53% low, Obama winner

2008 57% high, Obama winner

2004 56% high, G.W. Bush winner

2000 51% low, G.W. Bush winner

1996 49% low, Bill Clinton winner

1992 55% average, Bill Clinton winner

1988 50% low, G.H.W. Bush winner

1984 53% low, Reagan winner

1980 53% low, Reagan winner

1976 53% low, Carter winner

1972 55% average Nixon winner

1968 61% high Nixon winner

1964 61% high LBJ winner

1960 63% high JFK winner


4 Democratic and 2 Republican winners when there was a high voter turnout, above average. 4 Democratic and 3 Republican winners when the voter turnout was low or below average. 1 Democrat and 2 republican winners when the voter turnout was average. Presidential wise, I see little difference between high and low voter turnout.

Midterm House elections. The average turnout for midterms is 40%

2018 50% high, Democrats gained 44 seats

2014 38% low, Republicans gained 8 seats

2010 42% high, Republicans gained 63 seats

2006 38% low, Democrats gained 33 seats

2002 40% average, Republicans gained 8 seats

1998 37% low, Democrats gained 3 seats

1994 42% high, Republicans gained 54 seats

1990 38% low, Democrats gained 7 seats

1986 38% low, democrats gained 5 seats

1982 43% high, democrats gained 27 seats

1978 39% low, Republicans gained 7 seats

1974 39% low, Democrats gained 39 seats

1970 48% high, Democrats gained 12 seats

1966 47% high, Republicans gained 47 seats

1962 46% high, republicans gained 4 seats

I still don’t see a correlation between high and low turnout benefiting one or the other party. What I see is when the house changed hands, control 1994, 2010 and 2018, turnout was high. But in 2006 when the democrats took control of the house with a net gain of 33 seats, turnout was low. Finally, I looked back at gains of one party or the other of 30 or more seats to compare that to voter turnout in the midterms.

2018 50% high, Democrats gained 44 seats

2010 42% high, Republicans gained 63 seats

2006 38% low, Democrats gained 33 seats

1994 42% high, Republicans gained 54 seats

1974 39% low, Democrats gained 39 seats

1966 47% high, Republicans gained 47 seats

4 with high voter turnout, 2 with low voter turnout. Interesting to note that in 3 of the 4 high voter turnout midterm elections, it was the republicans who gained 30 or more seats vs. 1 for the Democrats. The two elections that had low voter turnout, the democrats picked up 30 plus seats in both of those.

My conclusion, high voter turnout only benefiting the Democratic Party is an old wife’s tale that we all had bought into.

 

[Galactic Spin]

High voter turnout benefiting the Democrats is an old wife’s tale.

Great, go prove that to the Republican morons. They are the ones who need to hear it.

 

[Mycroft]

He's been far more effective than Obama.

LOL!!

Nobody but you will say such a stupid thing.

 

[VySky]

I love this sleigh of hand. It's jut the law, it's not political:

Jane Brady, chair of the Delaware Republican Party...said the fight was over “rule of law” and not politics.

Yet Republicans will fight to keep the law.

"...the Supreme Court has made it clear that the expansion of voting access in the state will require constitutional amendments – which have previously been attempted and successfully blocked by Republicans."

Link


I saw no reference to it being a loophole in your article. There are no claims of voter fraud in DE.

You all just don't like people voting.

Even the dead folks

 

[KingLeo]

High voter turnout benefiting the Democrats is an old wife’s tale. Here’s the numbers to prove that. I used VAP since VEP was only kept track of beginning in 1980.

Average voter turnout since 1960 in presidential elections 55%.

2020 62% high Biden winner

2016 55% average, Trump winner

2012 53% low, Obama winner

2008 57% high, Obama winner

2004 56% high, G.W. Bush winner

2000 51% low, G.W. Bush winner

1996 49% low, Bill Clinton winner

1992 55% average, Bill Clinton winner

1988 50% low, G.H.W. Bush winner

1984 53% low, Reagan winner

1980 53% low, Reagan winner

1976 53% low, Carter winner

1972 55% average Nixon winner

1968 61% high Nixon winner

1964 61% high LBJ winner

1960 63% high JFK winner


4 Democratic and 2 Republican winners when there was a high voter turnout, above average. 4 Democratic and 3 Republican winners when the voter turnout was low or below average. 1 Democrat and 2 republican winners when the voter turnout was average. Presidential wise, I see little difference between high and low voter turnout.

Midterm House elections. The average turnout for midterms is 40%

2018 50% high, Democrats gained 44 seats

2014 38% low, Republicans gained 8 seats

2010 42% high, Republicans gained 63 seats

2006 38% low, Democrats gained 33 seats

2002 40% average, Republicans gained 8 seats

1998 37% low, Democrats gained 3 seats

1994 42% high, Republicans gained 54 seats

1990 38% low, Democrats gained 7 seats

1986 38% low, democrats gained 5 seats

1982 43% high, democrats gained 27 seats

1978 39% low, Republicans gained 7 seats

1974 39% low, Democrats gained 39 seats

1970 48% high, Democrats gained 12 seats

1966 47% high, Republicans gained 47 seats

1962 46% high, republicans gained 4 seats

I still don’t see a correlation between high and low turnout benefiting one or the other party. What I see is when the house changed hands, control 1994, 2010 and 2018, turnout was high. But in 2006 when the democrats took control of the house with a net gain of 33 seats, turnout was low. Finally, I looked back at gains of one party or the other of 30 or more seats to compare that to voter turnout in the midterms.

2018 50% high, Democrats gained 44 seats

2010 42% high, Republicans gained 63 seats

2006 38% low, Democrats gained 33 seats

1994 42% high, Republicans gained 54 seats

1974 39% low, Democrats gained 39 seats

1966 47% high, Republicans gained 47 seats

4 with high voter turnout, 2 with low voter turnout. Interesting to note that in 3 of the 4 high voter turnout midterm elections, it was the republicans who gained 30 or more seats vs. 1 for the Democrats. The two elections that had low voter turnout, the democrats picked up 30 plus seats in both of those.

My conclusion, high voter turnout only benefiting the Democratic Party is an old wife’s tale that we all had bought into.

By your own numbers since 1960 when voter turnout is greater than 55% Democrats win the presidency the majority of the time (5 to 4)

 

[Galactic Spin]

Even the dead folks

Another weird cult lie

 

[Perotista]

Great, go prove that to the Republican morons. They are the ones who need to hear it.

I never understood why the Republicans try to limit voter participation. The facts, numbers, stats show a high voter turnout can break both ways. The same for low voter turnout. What a high voter turnout accomplishes in my opinion is get more less to uninformed people to the polls as a knee jerk reaction to whatever is happening at the time.

Once an old wife’s tale takes hold, it is basically impossible to reverse it or have people change their minds. Those who believe in it will almost always continue to believe in it.

 

[Perotista]

By your own numbers since 1960 when voter turnout is greater than 55% Democrats win the presidency the majority of the time (5 to 4)

Yeah, but 5-4 is basically a statistical dead heat. You can’t have it any closer.

 

[KingLeo]

Yeah, but 5-4 is basically a statistical dead heat. You can’t have it any closer.

More than 60% it is 3 to 1 Democrats.
In both instances a higher turnout benefits Democrats.

 

[gbg3]

And the cheating that caused his loss won't happen again.

Sorry, but if you want to stop him next time, you'll have to kill him.

I don't know about that. As an example, I just read today that CO (a mail out ballot state and a state that claims to be nearly PERFECT with election integrity) sent postcards to 30,000 non-citizens encouraging them to register to vote in this upcoming election. Then, after it was caught, the SoS said oops, blamed it on a database error which just supposedly looked at everyone who had a driver's license in the state and was not yet registered to vote. Well, CO is one of 18 states which issues driver's licenses to non-citizens. Honest error, hmmmm? Pretty big one and those 30,000 postcards were not caught before they were both mailed and received. This same SoS has been sued for maintaining (or rather, clearly not maintaining) one of the most outdated voter rolls in the country.

 

[gbg3]

To each his own. In Utah, one of the reddest of the red states, If you are an active registered voter, you will automatically receive a ballot in the mail. That means every registered voter in the state! There has never been a whisper of any voting fraud in Utah. Obviously mail-in ballots have nothing to do with "election integrity," which was NEVER an issue in this entire country before Trump started LYING about it.

Awesome, and if the voter rolls aren't perfect and up to date, one can imagine a bunch of those automatically mailed ballots heading out to addresses all over the state - even to people who have moved or recently died. If someone just decides to vote that ballot and sign the name of the person on the "mail out" envelope, then mail it in - I guess we're left with nothing but a signature check by some election worker or software. How would there ever be a whisper because how would anyone possibly know (after separated from a signature on an envelope) if that ballot should have counted or not?
Perfect system for election integrity (heavy sarcasm intended).

 

[gbg3]

"Cheating' that has never been proven, even in the slightest.

Great way to look at it. Make voting as easy as possible, full of potential fraud opportunities, lacking in even basic checks and balances ------ and then claim cheating hasn't been proven. That's a confidence builder. After all, all voters, both parties, and all election workers are honest and upstanding and would NEVER engage in any election tactics to benefit their side or their candidates. Just trust the system!!!!!

 

[US&THEM]

Awesome, and if the voter rolls aren't perfect and up to date, one can imagine a bunch of those automatically mailed ballots heading out to addresses all over the state - even to people who have moved or recently died. If someone just decides to vote that ballot and sign the name of the person on the "mail out" envelope, then mail it in - I guess we're left with nothing but a signature check by some election worker or software. How would there ever be a whisper because how would anyone possibly know (after separated from a signature on an envelope) if that ballot should have counted or not?
Perfect system for election integrity (heavy sarcasm intended).

You keep leaving out the GOP morons who were caught in 2020 for voter fraud.

 

[Michael Cole]

I don't know about that. As an example, I just read today that CO (a mail out ballot state and a state that claims to be nearly PERFECT with election integrity) sent postcards to 30,000 non-citizens encouraging them to register to vote in this upcoming election. Then, after it was caught, the SoS said oops, blamed it on a database error which just supposedly looked at everyone who had a driver's license in the state and was not yet registered to vote. Well, CO is one of 18 states which issues driver's licenses to non-citizens. Honest error, hmmmm? Pretty big one and those 30,000 postcards were not caught before they were both mailed and received. This same SoS has been sued for maintaining (or rather, clearly not maintaining) one of the most outdated voter rolls in the country.

You read this where?

Even if true, they were postcards, not voter registration forms. No one illegally registered to vote.

 

[gbg3]

Tell ya what ... do a search on the term "ballot harvesting fraud".
Then you won't wonder why most states have restrictions on who can return a voter's mail-in ballot.
And the whole thing should make you understand why the Democrat Party luuuuuuvs mail in voting given the opportunity it provides them.

No kidding - it's the gold standard of voting. Mass mail all those ballots on a particular announced date and make sure the state and all those unlocked mailboxes are just flooded with them, all at once.

 

[Galactic Spin]

No kidding - it's the gold standard of voting. Mass mail all those ballots on a particular announced date and make sure the state and all those unlocked mailboxes just flooded with them, all at once.

So, pure fantasy. Who is going to do this? The things you suggest require large conspiracies of criminals. With, of course, no explanation of how the ballots get past verification. This is pure nutter stuff.

 

[gbg3]

You read this where?

Even if true, they were postcards, not voter registration forms. No one illegally registered to vote.

Right here:

Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailer

Colorado’s secretary of state’s office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote

abcnews.go.com

 

[jnug]

Great way to look at it. Make voting as easy as possible, full of potential fraud opportunities, lacking in even basic checks and balances ------ and then claim cheating hasn't been proven. That's a confidence builder. After all, all voters, both parties, and all election workers are honest and upstanding and would NEVER engage in any election tactics to benefit their side or their candidates. Just trust the system!!!!!

Common sense would tell you that if there was fraud on a scale large enough to actually flip elections, we would have seen that by now. First, it would take a conspiracy to pull that off and all of the efforts to point at the possible conspirators have yielded NOTHING. No Jewish space lasers, no Italian Satellites, no dastardly equipment and software suppliers, no efforts to steal large volumes of ballots and flip them to a particular candidate.

With the exception of people like Sydney Powell paying to have people hack state election software and databases and whacko Republicans trying to sneak people into counting and polling stations and other whacko Republicans creating fake State Elector certificates there has been nothing that would have yielded widespread voter or election fraud.

We have had a Presidential candidate claim months before any ballots were cast in an election that the election was rigged and that the only way he could lose was if the election was rigged against him and continue to make that claim both in an election he won and an election that he lost. Now that sounds like a candidate involved in an effort at widespread election fraud to me. Color me unsurprised when said candidate claimed that in the election he won in the Elector College that he lost the General election count because of ......illegal voting by migrants and claimed that the election he lost was lost due to election fraud. Again no proof just unsubstantiated claims many ultimately debunked entirely.

As far as small scale fraud, there has likely never been a single election in this country that has not had some sort of small scale voter fraud.

Also claims that Migrants are suddenly drawn into some large scale election or voter conspiracy are laughable ....ludicrous. The idea that DEMs are involved in some "replacement of voters" campaign using migrants is equally ludicrous. Those that com to this country that finally get to citizenship having gone through green card status to get there are not reliable voters for either party. I cannot fathom Democrats being stupid enough to import potential voters and then wait till they become citizens all the while assuming they would vote Democrat once they do become citizens. I can imagine some Righties stupid or unscrupulous enough to assert that would be an effort worth making.

We have states both trying to limit access to in person voting while eliminating mail in voting. Sorry....that does not sound like a legitimate effort at election security. That sounds like an effort to curtail legitimate voting of citizens.

Here, I have a remedy that would be useful. Make Election Day a holiday. We have every Tom Richard and Harry holiday you can think of many for purposes of generating revenue. Make Election Day a holiday so people can have the time to stand in line and vote.

 

[Galactic Spin]

Right here:

Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailer

Colorado’s secretary of state’s office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote

abcnews.go.com

So, like he said, postcards, not voter registration forms.