Dear Friend,
In the cover of darkness Monday night, Trump had his third Supreme Court
justice, Amy Coney Barrett, sworn in. And the Supreme Court is signaling
it might hand next week’s election to Donald Trump.^1
Trump has already said he “can’t go along with” an election decided by
mail-in ballots, and the Supreme Court just put limits on mail-in ballots
from Wisconsin this week.^2,3 We’re going to have to make sure Congress
protects the integrity of the election and that every vote is counted.
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Less than a week before the election, more than 60 million votes have been
cast between mail-in ballots and early voting poll sites.^4
And GOP lawyers have filed numerous lawsuits to get as many of those votes
thrown out as possible.
In Nevada, the Trump campaign has sued to get ballots from Las Vegas—the
largest Democrat-leaning city in the state—invalidated because of a
supposed lack of supervision over signature matching.^5 In Wisconsin, the
state GOP was successful in convincing the Supreme Court to toss ballots
received after November 3, even if they were mailed in time.^6 These are
just two of the dozens of suits that have been filed.^7
These lawsuits are working in concert with Trump’s ongoing slander of
vote-by-mail ballots that began over the summer. Trump will likely use
this doubt that he himself has cast on absentee ballots to challenge the
results if he isn’t the winner. He already said as much during the first
debate.
We are heading into a constitutional crisis that could drag state
legislatures, Congress, and the Supreme Court with it. Trump could try to
convince states to overrule their voters in the Electoral College. He
could ask his Barrett-majority Supreme Court to throw out millions of
ballots for specious reasons. We can’t know exactly what he’ll do.
That’s why we’re getting ready now, so we can go to Congress at the first
hint of a challenge to next week’s results. The Constitution gave Congress
power over the election and how electoral votes are counted, and we need
to make sure Congress uses that power to protect our votes.
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November 3 election?
Thanks for standing with us.
Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. CNN, "Brett Kavanaugh foreshadows how Supreme Court could disrupt vote
counting," [ [link removed] ]October 27, 2020
2. Rev Services, "2020 Joe Biden Donald Trump 1st Debate Part 2,"
[ [link removed] ]accessed October 28, 2020
3. CBS News, "Supreme Court quashes Wisconsin court order that said
absentee ballots could be counted up to 6 days after Election Day,"
[ [link removed] ]October 27, 2020
4. CNN, "The latest on the 2020 election," [ [link removed] ]October 27, 2020
5. Associated Press, "Trump campaign sues in Nevada to stop Vegas-area
vote count," [ [link removed] ]October 23, 2018
6. CBS News, "Supreme Court quashes Wisconsin court order that said
absentee ballots could be counted up to 6 days after Election Day,"
[ [link removed] ]October 27, 2020
7. Business Insider, "The Trump campaign is waging an all-out legal war to
stop the expansion of vote-by-mail in 7 different states," [ [link removed] ]September
27, 2020
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