No extension for mail ballots from Navajo Nation voters, 9th Circuit court rules

[RandySF]

A federal appeals court said Thursday it would not move back the deadline for mail ballots from the Navajo Nation.

Citing slow mail service and long distances between polling places, several voters from the Navajo Nation filed a lawsuit in August arguing that their ballots should still be tallied if received after 7 p.m. on Election Day but postmarked by that date.

A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that while the lawsuit “is replete with general allegations concerning the various hardships the Navajo Nation members who live on the reservation generally face with respect to mail voting,” the voters had not shown how the current deadline will harm their ability to vote in this election.




https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2020/10/15/9th-circuit-wont-change-deadline-mail-ballots-navajo-nation/3671826001/

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. So, if we just ignore the facts presented

then the Navajo didn't prove their case.

[Enterstageleft]

2. Appeal it, that's what the rePugnants would do!

[scarletwoman]

3. 9th Circuit to the Navajo Nation: Suck it up.