Kavanaugh corrects controversial opinion after Vermont fact-checks false claim about mail-in voting – By Igor Derysh (Salon) / Oct 29 2020
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos called out Kavanaugh’s “erroneous claim” and called for a public correction
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh corrected his controversial opinion in a Wisconsin mail-in voting case after Vermont’s secretary of state sent the hight court a letter fact-checking his “erroneous claim” about the state’s voting by mail rules.
Kavanaugh issued a concurring opinion in the Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision to ban Wisconsin from counting mail-in ballots if they are sent by Election Day but arrive after Nov. 3, citing Vermont as an example of a state which had not changed its “ordinary election rules” due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos pointed out that was not true, noting that the state had sent mail-in ballots to every active registered voter for the first time and changed rules to allow those ballots to be counted earlier than in previous elections.
“These two actions factored significantly in our decision to hold to existing law requiring the election day receipt of mailed ballots rather than extending returns beyond election day based on postmark,” Condos wrote in a letter to the court. “Since the state of Wisconsin neither changed its ordinary election rules this year to mail each of its active registered voters a ballot nor authorized its local election officials to process ballots early, Vermont is not an accurate comparison for the assertion Justice Kavanaugh has made. I respectfully ask that the record is corrected to reflect that.”
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