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brooklynite

(94,657 posts) Wed Sep 16, 2020, 07:35 PM Sep 2020

Trump campaign seeks to halt early vote counting while lawsuit against New Jersey is decided

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump’s campaign wants a federal judge to act soon to prevent New Jersey from counting mail-in ballots starting 10 days before the Nov. 3 election.

In a court filing Wednesday, the campaign also asked U.S. District Court Judge Michael Shipp to bar elections officials from accepting mail-in ballots that do not have a postmark for two days after Election Day.

The campaign and its co-plaintiffs, the Republican National Committee and the New Jersey Republican State Committee, filed an “an order to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not issue” — its first move to hasten the lawsuit they filed Aug. 18.

But the motion, signed by state Sen. Michael Testa (R-Cumberland), does not seek to immediately pause the larger plans for a mail-in election, despite the Trump campaign’s claims it violates the U.S. Constitution and three federal laws.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/09/16/trump-campaign-seeks-halt-early-vote-counting-while-lawsuit-against-new-jersey-is-decided-1317146

So, he doesn't want the vote count to drag out after Election Day and he doesn't want mailed in ballots counted early.

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Trump campaign seeks to halt early vote counting while lawsuit against New Jersey is decided (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2020 OP

His plan is transparent. mzmolly Sep 2020 #1

Exactly. bearsfootball516 Sep 2020 #2

Not gonna happen anyway. Drunken Irishman Sep 2020 #3

I hope not. mzmolly Sep 2020 #4

Bingo onetexan Sep 2020 #7

NJ isn't going for Trump - interestingly, he's not suing Florida Fiendish Thingy Sep 2020 #5

Doesn't matter to me padah513 Sep 2020 #6

Kudos to you! Sounds like NJ voters are on it! Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #8

So much goddamn corruption! sakabatou Sep 2020 #9

Mail In Ballots Are More Labor Intensive DallasNE Sep 2020 #10

mzmolly

(51,003 posts)

1. His plan is transparent.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 07:45 PM

Sep 2020

He hopes to appear ahead on election night and declare a win.

Impact: If Shipp sides with the Trump campaign and bars elections officials from counting ballots early, it could take days or even weeks to know the results of close races and could make it hard to certify election results by the late November deadline.

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)

2. Exactly.

Reply to mzmolly (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 07:49 PM

Sep 2020

That way, when Biden takes the lead, he can claim it was rigged.

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)

3. Not gonna happen anyway.

Reply to mzmolly (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 07:50 PM

Sep 2020

I would be a bit more worried if this judge was a Trump appointee but he's not. He was appointed by Obama in 2012.

mzmolly

(51,003 posts)

4. I hope not.

Reply to Drunken Irishman (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 08:09 PM

Sep 2020

I'm sure he'll try to challenge legit votes and the democratic process, wherever he can.

onetexan

(13,048 posts)

7. Bingo

Reply to mzmolly (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 09:12 PM

Sep 2020

Fiendish Thingy

(15,644 posts)

5. NJ isn't going for Trump - interestingly, he's not suing Florida

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 08:26 PM

Sep 2020

Which count their absentee ballots as they are received, so that tallies can be released once the polls close.

We should know who won Florida election night, and if Biden wins, it’s over for Trump.

padah513

(2,503 posts)

6. Doesn't matter to me

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 08:39 PM

Sep 2020

My town is the Atlantic County seat here in NJ so as soon as I get my ballot I'm filling it out and dropping it off in the dropbox at the election board and everybody I know is doing the same. Sometimes you have to beat the devil at his own game.

Thekaspervote

(32,785 posts)

8. Kudos to you! Sounds like NJ voters are on it!

Reply to padah513 (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 10:14 PM

Sep 2020

sakabatou

(42,165 posts)

9. So much goddamn corruption!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Sep 16, 2020, 10:20 PM

Sep 2020

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)

10. Mail In Ballots Are More Labor Intensive

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Sep 17, 2020, 02:23 AM

Sep 2020

And that is the reason for wanting to start a couple of days ahead of time. They have to match the signature on the registration card on file with the signature on the envelope returning the ballot.

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