I've been seeing posts ON THIS WEBSITE this morning saying the Supreme Court WILL steal this election!!!

[HagathaCrispy]

Regarding the Virginia ruling I have been seeing several comments stating that the Supreme Court will steal this election from Harris. Do we know that to be true and what can we do about it please explain to those of us including myself who are very frightened now and other posters who are openly posting they think the Supreme Court is going to steal the election from her.

[mucifer]

1. Im going with Marc Elias who is fighting and

Winning all sorts of court battles and says Kamala Harris will be the President.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. Your concern is noted...

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Well, if you read it on the internet, it must be true...

…or maybe not.

[Demsrule86]

4. How about link. Your concern is noted.

[drmeow]

5. I think there is a concern

that if the race is close (or even if it isn't close) the fascist.. err, Republican ... party will challenge the election any way they can. This may include trying to use the Supreme Court to challenge it. If the Supreme Court gets involved post election, there is a belief that they will do everything they can to give the Presidency to Trump.

How true any of that is, I don't know. What we can do about it if it is true I also don't know. Why other people had to be snarky in their responses to you is yet another thing I don't know.

[Silent Type]

6. The SC stood firm against trump in 2020 on election matters. That was the easiest election to overthrow in

history, small voter edge in key states, trump admin still in office, trump appointed 3 Justices, etc.

Just vote. Hopefully we'll win by enough that it will be tough to steal election.

[TwilightZone]

7. Ignore it.

There is a lot of hyperbole on DU about the election. Much of it is either exaggerated or unwarranted.

There are many valid reasons to be concerned, certainly, but if Harris wins the EC, SCOTUS is not going to "steal" it.

[lees1975]

8. There is no way for the Supreme Court to intervene in an election and declare a winner constitutionally.

The pathway to the court in 2000 Bush v. Gore was over the authority the state of Florida had to reject some ballots, like provisional and overseas that arrived late, not over declaring who won the state. They simply ruled that it was the Florida legislature who had jurisdiction over the election count, which allowed the Secretary of State to certify the totals after the two recounts, which put W ahead by a little over 500 votes, leaving out a majority of the uncured provisional ballots.

States have laws or constitutional provisions regarding the selection of electors and the procedures established for counting and certifying votes. They can't just arbitrarily abandon a vote total. It's protected by law. In fact, there's a county supervisor now who is under indictment, and another who just plea bargained, because the law is clear that they don't have the authority or expertise to determine the accuracy of a vote count. There must be a legal basis allowed under state law for throwing ballots out before that can happen. Some states can throw out provisional ballots, others can't. But there are Democrats watching every polling and counting location.

If they weren't losing every battleground state, they wouldn't need to try this.

[HagathaCrispy]

9. Whats with all these rude people in the first 4 or so posts?

I don't think my question was stupid I am simply asking about the comments on the Virginia forum many people are rightfully concerned my goodness