Dems urge voters to avoid mailing ballots in final week

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Dems urge voters to avoid mailing ballots in final week

Party leaders and officials in key battleground states are urging voters to vote in person instead, with ballot return deadlines looming.

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10/27/20
With a week to go until Election Day, Democrats are pushing a new get-out-the-vote mantra: There’s still time to vote early, but it is too late to put your ballot in the mail. Far more Democrats than Republicans plan to vote by mail in 2020, according to polling and ballot request data. That leaves the party more exposed if ballots returned via mail don’t reach election officials until after state deadlines. Now, those deadlines are looming in key battleground states, as are worries about postal delays and new concerns the Supreme Court will change procedures in important states. The Supreme Court declined on Monday night to reinstate a lower court decision that extended mail ballot return deadlines in Wisconsin. Now, ballots are due in the state by the time the polls close on Nov. 3. Supreme Court voting cases on extended ballot receipt deadlines in other swing states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina are still pending. “We did not put our hopes and dreams for the future in the hands of [Justice] Brett Kavanaugh.” said Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. “We expected and planned for it. If the Supreme Court had done the right thing, it would have been a bonus for democracy. But it wasn’t something we were counting on.” Like in Wisconsin, Democrats in North Carolina and Pennsylvania say they aren’t waiting for the Supreme Court to potentially hand down a last minute ruling. If anything, they say, the urgency in this year’s election was already incredibly high and the ruling won’t change much.

1) If you have not already placed your ballot in the mailbox, don't. You are too late. Either place your completed ballot in an official ballot drop-off box, or vote in person.
2) Do not count on the USPS to expedite election ballots no matter what shyster Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says.
3) Do not count on the Supreme Court to to the right thing. There is a reason Republicans confirmed Barrett after this election was already in motion.

Still haven’t voted? Don’t send your ballot by mail.

The deadline has passed to safely mail your ballot. Here’s what to do if you still need to vote.

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