Thread by @jedshug

It seems to me the Supreme Court got it right on the Wisconsin primary:
1) right on the narrow issue of a last-minute change to basic election timing
2) right on the broader question that one cannot make last-minute changes that deligitimize an election...

A good precedent, no?

Isn’t it an obviously big problem to give people an extra 5 days to cast votes, when counting & exit polls may be leaked?

Isn’t it the state’s fault for not having the capacity to mail out absentee ballots in time?

Isn’t this a lesson to states to get their act together?

3/ People are missing how narrow the question was before the Court, and how problematic it is to allow people to keep voting 5 days after "election day":

4/ Apparently, the state mailed 99% of absentee ballots to those who requested them, and there is some confusion as to how many of the 11,000 were late requests or past-deadline requests.
Every vote should count, but elections also have rules.
Statutory rules.

5/ It was dramatic for a fed court to extend VOTING window, not just the receiving window, by *6 days*

offered not in the plaintiffs' filed motion, but only in the hearing (a big problem of notice).
Sorry, seems like a big error by Dems' lawyers.
Majority on left. RBG on right: