Turning the (Voting) Machines Back On

If Sleepy Joe Biden is actually elected President, the 4 Justices (plus1) that helped make such a ridiculous win possible would be relegated to sitting on not only a heavily PACKED COURT, but probably a REVOLVING COURT as well. At least the many new Justices will be Radical Left!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2020

a) He's getting a little ahead of himself: there is no Bush v. Gore type case pending before the Supreme Court.

b) Or he's talking about the recent decision to allow post-election day ballots to be counted in Michigan.

c)  Our man on their side, redux.  If Trump gets an election fraud case to the Supreme Court, this tweet alone could be grounds to arguing the Court shouldn't touch it because any result they render would seriously damage the reputation of the Court (which is all they have, and they know it.  Bush v. Gore, despite multiple opinions being written for it, was per curiam, and expliclty declared not to be precedential, which made that stinkpot even worse, IMHLO.  The Court knows how thin the ice is in these cases, and they don't want to fall through it.  That water is VERY cold.)

The President who dangled pardons at his cronies to keep them from cooperating with the Mueller investigation is now trying to convince the Supreme Court to do him a little favor. No institution Trump touches gets out of this with its integrity intact. https://t.co/xksNMqGvHK

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 30, 2020

And again, every state has its own laws on when ballots can be received after Election Day (if at all), and no court is going to void those because Trump tweets "FRAUD!"

Repeat after me: "All votes have never been counted on election night." These graphs show the number of votes that were counted and reported in 2016 after Wednesday morning following E-Day. Even "quick count" states had work to do. pic.twitter.com/3sSpbwNgkF

— Charles Stewart III (@cstewartiii) October 29, 2020

One other thing, while we're talking about votes and elections:

The way I look at it is, the fact that Republicans have been doing everything they can to suppress turnout, and the fact that turnout has shot through the roof, tells us pretty much everything we need to know. https://t.co/eiAi0VUpJ3

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) October 30, 2020

It tells me that, if the GOP is hoist on its own petar, the solution is to repeal voter ID laws and as many vote suppression measures as possible, and pass laws/amend state constitutions to make voting was easy as possible. The people obviously want it that way, but we shouldn't be complacent if our efforts bring victory in November. The fight isn't over on Tuesday, it just enters Round Two.

(And has anyone considered the impact not just of covid but computers on this election.  How many people are voting by mail so they have a paper record?  It's the only way to get one in Harris County, and while the number of mail in ballots is hardly the majority of the votes cast, one does wonder.  Because, OTOH, Minnesota has received over 1.5 million ballots in the mail.  There's probably not one single reason for such a record, but creating a paper trail could well be one of them.)