And I intend to vote in every election.

In the delightful system we have, each state is free to set its own rules about the cutoff point for mailed-in ballots.  The rationale for allowing the counting of "late" ballots is that voters have no control over when a piece of mail is delivered.  Given the cutbacks to the US Postal Service and the unprecedentedly-large amount of mail-in ballots this year, it is possible someone might mail a ballot a week or more before election day but it might not arrive until after election day.  A lower-court judge in Wisconsin ruled that for this reason ballots arriving six days after election day in that state should still be counted, IF they were postmarked by election day.  The Supreme Court overruled this yesterday, a move that Kavanaugh made clear was blatantly political in nature in his write up of the decision, in which he expressed concern that late-arriving ballots might "flip" the results of the election.  As Elena Kagan pointed out in her dissent, this is a deceptive statement as there ARE no results to "flip" until all the votes have been counted.

Ideally, all ballots post-marked by election day should be counted.  That is the law in my state (Washington).  However, it's not the law in many other states, and the SCOTUS has shown that it has no interest in protecting voters' rights when state laws disenfranchise them. 

As I've said already, at this point I have no doubt Biden will receive enough votes to win the election.  I do unfortunately have serious doubts about whether all the votes he receives will be counted.  And this undercounting may well hand the election to Trump.  It's not an understatement to say the legitimacy of the US government is at a crossroads.

Needlessly complicated, but I can appreciate that they're dancing as fast as they can.

It's a price of our freedom. I for one will suffer it gladly - because the alternative is a dictator's tool (and one that Trump would gladly seize against someone else.)

The alternative is one side in power (think, oh, let's say for fun... a TRUMP administration!!) fining, jailing (or worse) the other side for the messages they don't "like".  I'll keep our First Amendment, imperfections and all.

Marc

She seems, in fact, to be a renowned dingbat. I can't recall much she has said that mattered or made sense, or both. Like father, like fantasy-lover, I guess.