GOP Should Fight Democrats’ Vote Schemes in Court, Not Play Catch-Up

The white flags of give up are flapping within the breeze, because of Republicans keen to just accept as everlasting the “emergency” election guidelines that Democrats demanded throughout 2020’s COVID hell.

Eager for the elusive crimson wave, some GOP officers and operatives are struggling Stockholm Syndrome: They assume it’s time to give up to Democrats, swallow their dodgy vote schemes, and finally sink them with early, mail-in, and trafficked ballots, drop bins, and ballots obtained and counted days and weeks after polls shut, and so forth.

Reasonably than change, Republicans ought to struggle. They don’t have anything lower than federal legislation and the U.S. Structure on their aspect. The GOP ought to litigate this matter all the way in which to the Supreme Court docket earlier than ever yielding to Democrats’ rabid imaginative and prescient of how Individuals ought to vote.

Election Day is the Tuesday after the primary Monday in November, not because of “The Star-Spangled Banner” or one thing that Thomas Jefferson quipped as he sipped Madeira.

Two federal statutes govern this matter.

In response to 2 U.S. Code § 7, “the Tuesday subsequent after the first Monday in November, in each even numbered yr” is the date for electing members of Congress and, quadrenially, per 3 U.S. Code § 1, presidential delegates to the Electoral School. These legal guidelines specify November—not October, a lot much less September.

Neither statute permits for voting on Halloween or simply after Individuals depart the sand dunes on Labor Day.

In the meantime, Pennsylvania’s absentee congressional votes began on Sept. 16, based on Vote.org. Kentucky’s two days of early voting started on Nov. 3. Connecticut permits neither in-person early votes, nor no-excuse absentee ballots.

Downside: These extensively assorted intervals deny voters equal safety below the 14th Modification to the U.S. Structure. A Pennsylvania poll for U.S. Senate can sit round for 53 days, all of the whereas weak to willful sabotage, unwitting misplacement, or destruction resulting from floods, fires, or different mishaps. A Connecticut poll for Senate faces these dangers for at some point.

If Individuals all voted on Election Day, as we overwhelmingly did from the times of Andrew Johnson by way of Lyndon Johnson till about when Barack Obama arrived, voters and their ballots would take pleasure in one thing a lot nearer to equal safety than immediately’s confounding assortment of conflicting voting home windows.

These objections apart, mass mail-in ballots, early voting, and all which might be odious on their deserves.

Democrats must be ashamed of themselves. By seducing thousands and thousands of Individuals into voting at residence slightly than at precincts, Democrats have destroyed the sanctity of the key poll.

Standing alone behind a curtain and selecting one’s pols on the polls is completely completely different from voting on the kitchen desk or at an workplace “vote celebration” as household, mates, co-workers, and even employers hover judgmentally. Likewise, filling a mail-in poll beneath the gaze of a visiting party-hack trafficker demolishes secrecy.

Early voting resembles a jury deliberating earlier than listening to all of the proof. In Pennsylvania, 635,428 voters mailed of their ballots earlier than Democrat John Fetterman’s disastrous debate towards Republican Mehmet Oz. Some voted as early as 39 days earlier than Fetterman struggled to talk—a key senatorial talent.

Those that wished to alter their early ballots have been out of luck.

Reasonably than give up to Marc Elias and the Democrats’ different “lawfare” troopers who cooked this canine’s breakfast, Republicans must lawyer up and litigate with all the fervour that Thurgood Marshall delivered to Brown vs. Board of Schooling and others dedicated to Miranda, Roe, Kelo, Dobbs, and different landmark instances.

Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court docket ought to ponder a easy query: What a part of “the Tuesday subsequent after the first Monday in November” is unclear? Atop the 2 related federal statutes, the 14th Modification argument deserves their scrutiny.

If such litigation prevails, the Democrats’ infernal, more and more everlasting, “momentary” measures will go the way in which of masks, social distancing, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

And if such litigation fails, then—and solely then—ought to Republicans focus on beating Democrats on the filthy, unlawful electoral practices that they’ve sicced on America’s voters.

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