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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (243336)	7/11/2022 3:41:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 353859

There is no concept of a drop box. Absentee ballots are to be "handed to" the elections administrator or an appointee. The statute at issue says that absentee ballots “shall be mailed by the elector, or delivered in person, to the municipal clerk.” It does not say "handed to." And it doesn't specify further. Which gives latitude on how ballots are to be received. The WILL attorney--those on your side--said that because there is no state law governing drop boxes, thus no legal standard on how to use them. The elections authority could have chosen to make voters hand them personally to the municipal clerk but it didn't presumably because that makes no sense. It could have chosen to have drop boxes, as it did. Or assorted other mechanisms for accepting delivery. Without being in violation of the law as written. Because the law doesn't say. However, elections personnel have been ignoring that specific legal require set out by the legislature. Unless you can show where the law says otherwise, you're wrong. Now, going forward, the court's decision applies. And any legislation they may come up will apply. But neither applies retroactively. They didn't defy the law when they installed drop boxes.