Friday, October 23, 2020

Speaking of court orders...

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from President Trump’s reelection campaign to block New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) plan to send mail-in ballots to all registered voters as a safety precaution during the pandemic.

U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp wrote that the plaintiff's claims that unsolicited mail-in ballots would lead to rampant illegal voting “are largely conjectural, hypothetical, and lacking in imminence."

[...]

The judge pointed to how state election officials have implemented several security measures, including bar codes on each ballot and laws making it a third-degree crime to engage in voter fraud.

“Any suggestion of these measures’ imminent failure is also speculative,” wrote Shipp.

[...]

The statewide July 7 primary was conducted entirely through mail-in ballots and encountered some problems. Approximately 1,666 ballots in Sussex County were accidentally left uncounted for more than two months, according to elections officials.

But despite the issues, Murphy heralded the process as “not perfect, but overwhelmingly a success.”

  The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

No comments: