{"id":1553194,"date":"2022-07-13T18:19:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T22:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553194"},"modified":"2022-07-13T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T22:19:14","slug":"massachusetts-supreme-court-rejects-gop-challenge-greenlights-mail-in-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-supreme-court-rejects-gop-challenge-greenlights-mail-in-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Supreme Court Rejects GOP Challenge, Greenlights Mail-In Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmassachusetts-supreme-court-rejects-gop-challenge-greenlights-mail-in-voting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553194&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The highest court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a> on July 11 threw out a challenge to absentee voting rules brought by state Republicans, a move that allows voters to submit mail-in ballots in the September primary election without having to provide an excuse.<\/p>\n<p>A brief, unsigned order indicates the court will release a \u201cfull opinion explaining the court\u2019s reasoning\u201d in \u201cdue course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans had argued that the state\u2019s VOTES Act, which Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, signed into law in June, was unconstitutional because the measure needed to be approved by voters. The party also argued that making no-excuse vote-by-mail and early voting permanent in the state was a bad idea because the policies increase the likelihood of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>After the measure, which made permanent the temporary relaxations of voting rules enacted at the height of the pandemic, was signed, state officials reportedly began getting ready to mail out more than 4.7 million ballot applications to voters for the upcoming primary.<\/p>\n<p>GOP attorney Michael Walsh told the Massachusetts Supreme\u00a0Judicial\u00a0Court\u00a0on July 6 that the Massachusetts Legislature went out of bounds when it made early voting and vote-by-mail the new normal in the state, The Eagle-Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eagletribune.com\/news\/boston\/mass-republicans-urge-court-to-overturn-voting-law\/article_cc2aaafe-fd23-11ec-a52c-a7a84d19ef34.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh referenced a 1917 amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution that said voters should only be allowed to cast mail or absentee ballots if they are disabled, away from home on Election Day, or possess religious objections to voting in person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, we assert that any kind of absentee or mail-in voting must comply [with constitutional articles] or else they are on their face outside of the authority of the Legislature,\u201d the lawyer told the court.<\/p>\n<p>Two plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Jim Lyons, who is chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, and Rayla Campbell, the party\u2019s candidate for secretary of state, said they would promptly ask the U.S. Supreme Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest court in Massachusetts on July 11 threw out a challenge to absentee voting rules brought by state Republicans, a move that allows voters to submit mail-in ballots in the September primary election without having to provide an excuse. 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