ANNAPOLIS, Md. – On Tuesday, February 21, the United States Supreme Court soundly rejected an election lawsuit from former Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Dan Cox. The lawsuit sought to reverse a ruling from the lower courts that allowed mail-in ballots to be counted by election officials, weeks before the day of the election.
Cox, who was defeated by current Governor Wes Moore in the 2022 election, has made his opposition to counting mail-in ballots before election day known since September 2022, in which he filed a motion to block counting mail-in ballots before election day.
The decision to begin counting the ballot before election day came when the Maryland State Board of Elections issued an emergency petition to allow the counting to begin before election day due to the sheer amount of mail-in ballots filled out in July 2022
Cox claimed that, “The Board of Elections asking the courts to change the rules of election weeks prior to the election being held is unacceptable.”
The Maryland Court of Appeals of course overruled Cox and in October they ruled that election officials could begin counting mail-in ballots before election day.
In his doomed lawsuit to the Supreme Court, Cox argues that the Maryland State Courts usurped the authority of state legislatures in their ruling.
“The U.S. Constitution requires that the rules for holding an election be made only by the legislative body of the state holding those elections,” said Cox’s attorney C. Edward Hartman III.
“This petition presents the opportunity for the United States Supreme Court to enforce the (U.S. Constitution’s) Elections Clause, vital to the continuation of our republic form of government.”
Even if the Supreme Court ruled in Cox’s favor it would in no way change the results of the election. Cox was defeated by Moore in the 2022 Maryland Gubernatorial Election by a margin of 64% to 32%.
However, Hartman states that Cox does not wish to overturn the election results, but seeks to prevent an unconstitutional early count in 2024 and beyond.
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Maryland is happy that the SC refused to hear the case. Now liberal run Maryland can do whatever illegal voting practices it wants. IOW; Business as usual.
They count the votes so they’ll know how many they need to win End mail in voting.
Smacked. Down.
Smacked. Down.
when there are ballots in- the- mail, there is no one supervising. When mail is being transported, there is only 1 with the mail, all of it, + ballots are mail. I understand the concern for putting alot of ballots through the mail.
You are worried about mail in ballots, but can’t compose a coherent sentence?
Why can’t we have hand- counted paper ballots? if we’re concerned about accurate election results, whats wrong with it taking a long time to count? Whats the big deal? Whats the rush to have the election results? Its rather insulting, actually, when candidates try for months to get elected, to have election results the same night. Everything they’ve worked so hard for to take only hours to count. It takes you months to become Sheriff, but I can have thee results in hours. Its insulting to the candidates to have same- night election results. It really demeans the work they do to get elected.
I’m sure hand counting ballots is more accurate than running them through a computer. When’s the last time your calculator gave you an incorrect answer? When’s the last time a human miscounted or miscalculated something? I agree that there’s no rush to count if that may lead to inaccurate results, but hand counting is ridiculous.
In Georgia, despite 3 audits, that matched THE HAND COUNTED BALLOTS at 99.904% the GOP and their fearless leader still claimed election fraud. What difference does it make to count the ballots the week before or the night of. By hand or machine? There will always be election deniers no matter what. Even if they lose 60 court cases based on no evidence and no merit. I will tell you why the GOP wants to lose mail-in ballots or at least have them counted later. The mail in ballots being counted later means that the GOP candidate can claim the win in advance of the actual tally allowing them to cast doubt on the results. Entire states (Colorado and 5 others) have Mail-In only voting. Audits have proven that it is efficient, fair, and accurate. But the GOP wants none of that in our elections.
I’m glad he stuck with this.
Me Too. He had nothing else to do after losing big.
the annapolis maryland march for life is monday.
I wonder how many of the uninformed whiners and complainers above actually voted or have ever voted?