We're seeing Republican battleground voter suppression like never before: Fight back with GOTV
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Donald Trump, with an assist from Supreme Court, beer-loving Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is working hard to advance his claim that any mail-in or absentee ballot received after 8 PM on Election Day is not a valid vote. Kavanaugh planted the seed for that iWe're seeing Republican battleground voter suppression like never before: Fight back with GOTV
Donald Trump, with an assist from Supreme Court, beer-loving Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is working hard to advance his claim that any mail-in or absentee ballot received after 8 PM on Election Day is not a valid vote. Kavanaugh planted the seed for that in his radical opinion agreeing with Wisconsin's attempt to disqualify ballots, arguing that «most States […] want to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after Election Day and potentially flip the results of an election.» Never mind that ballots cast—even up to closing time Election Day—are the election. Trump, however, is trying to set up his legal case to toss late-arriving ballots in battleground states Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and now Minnesota. In Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review their previous 4-4 deadlock on whether Pennsylvania could count ballots received as late as Nov. 6. But! Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch left the door open for reviewing that after the fact—in other words, yanking the ballots after Election Day if Trump is close enough in the count and hasn't already clearly lost. Note that Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in this decision but she didn't recuse herself. She could very well join those three and Kavanaugh to invalidate late-arriving ballots in pretty much any battleground state, should Trump try to bring that fight. Defeating Republicans will require all of us to get plugged in to GOTV efforts. On Mobilize, hundreds of Democratic campaigns are recruiting volunteers for all sorts of get-out-the-vote activities. Just click here, and search via zip code to find an event nearest you, and sign up to volunteer. Read more