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Today a court will rule if the incompetence of the Post Office is cause for Riverside County not to count the ballots.
State law is specific--ballots must be received by 8:00pm of Election Day to be counted. It is the responsibility of the voter, not the government, to assure this.
John Eastman has submitted a brief to clarify the issue.
"In his brief, John Eastman, attorney for the Orange County-based Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, said that Registrar of Voters Barbara Dunmore "has no more legal authority to include them in her vote count than she would have to allow people to cast ballots in person after the close of the polls on Election Day."
Eastman addressed head-on the argument that the voters did their part in turning in the ballots on time.
"It is hard to sympathize with the 'we did all we could' claim when two of the three named individual plaintiffs did not even bother to deliver their absentee ballots to the post office until the Sunday before the election, undoubtedly knowing full well that the post office does not operate on Sundays and that one-day delivery by the post office is not guaranteed," he wrote."
It is the voters’ responsibility to get the ballot to the polling place or the Registrar of Voters office in a timely fashion. People have 30 days to vote BEFORE the election--the plaintiffs waited till 48 hours before the polls closed to submit their ballot--and they gave the ballot to a third party, they did not submit the ballots themselves.
Time for people to be responsible for their actions--vote late and you take the chance your vote will not be counted.
What do you think?
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State law is specific--ballots must be received by 8:00pm of Election Day to be counted. It is the responsibility of the voter, not the government, to assure this.
John Eastman has submitted a brief to clarify the issue.
"In his brief, John Eastman, attorney for the Orange County-based Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, said that Registrar of Voters Barbara Dunmore "has no more legal authority to include them in her vote count than she would have to allow people to cast ballots in person after the close of the polls on Election Day."
Eastman addressed head-on the argument that the voters did their part in turning in the ballots on time.
"It is hard to sympathize with the 'we did all we could' claim when two of the three named individual plaintiffs did not even bother to deliver their absentee ballots to the post office until the Sunday before the election, undoubtedly knowing full well that the post office does not operate on Sundays and that one-day delivery by the post office is not guaranteed," he wrote."
It is the voters’ responsibility to get the ballot to the polling place or the Registrar of Voters office in a timely fashion. People have 30 days to vote BEFORE the election--the plaintiffs waited till 48 hours before the polls closed to submit their ballot--and they gave the ballot to a third party, they did not submit the ballots themselves.
Time for people to be responsible for their actions--vote late and you take the chance your vote will not be counted.
What do you think?
More...