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The Supreme Court is expected to make a ruling in the coming days that would allow state laws to be overturned that would permit late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted towards Election Day totals. The possible decision stems from a case brought up in Mississippi, which allows votes to count up to five days after the election. However, the six conservative Supreme Court justices may have tipped their hand about their collective disapproval of early voting, which was never part of the original case. With mail-in voting and ballot harvesting on the table, 710 WOR’s Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the Morning program weighed in on what actions the Supreme Court could- and should- take.
Larry believes early voting should be limited, and Election Day should be the final day on the calendar to make your voice heard: “It is exactly ballot harvesting, so it should be we should vote on Election Day. Unless you have a really good reason not to vote on Election Day, you should go up in person you should show an ID, and you should vote. That’s the way it should be; that’s the way it was. Before Covid, that’s the way it was. Now we change it in all these states because of Covid. Why do we keep it if, you just agreed, it’s ripe for fraud?”
Curtis agreed on late ballots being ridiculous, but feels early voting is here to stay and should be a tool Democrats and Republicans can both use: “Early voting, I think people have embraced it. I think people are happy. I think Republicans are happy that they could get out and vote early, seven days or ten days, because when they weren’t doing that, they were starting to lose a lot of elections. So, I would say take what you can, which is, of course, you don’t want paper ballots coming in stamped, postmarked on November 4th, and then we don’t figure out who wins until maybe ten, twenty-one days later.”
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