Presidential candidates may use postal ballots to ‘make mischief’ with results | Sky News Australia

  • 📰 SkyNewsAust
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 12 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 8%
  • Publisher: 78%

Australia Headlines News

Australia Latest News,Australia Headlines

United States Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says if US Presidential election results are not clear on the night of the election, there will be room for candidates to “make mischief” with results by challenging the validity of postal votes.

“I go back to the 2000’s cycle … lawyers being parachuted into Florida to slow down that vote count, to question every ballot as it came in,” Mr Jackman told Sky News.

“Republicans do very well with in-person voting on the day, other forms of voting perhaps lean more Democratic and the result turns on legal efforts to count or not count, to exclude or not exclude those other ballots.”

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

You mean Trump. He's already trying to discredit postal votes. He wants people to go out and vote instead, during a pandemic. Voter suppression at its finest

Remember the predictions these guys made last time?

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 7. in AU

Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

‘Good news story’ emerges from Victoria | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny has spoken of a good news story involving a small business owner from the suburb of Braybrook in Victoria. \n\nImage: Getty
Source: SkyNewsAust - 🏆 7. / 78 Read more »

‘Be selfless’: Bistro owner prays Victorians behave in lockdown | Sky News AustraliaA Melbourne bistro owner is praying Victorians behave themselves for six weeks to get out of the “mire” of the stage four lockdown – expressing uncertainty about the future of his employees.\n\nLamaro's Hotel owner Paul Dimattina said it’s time people “bloody listen” to the state’s COVID-19 restrictions – especially young partygoers and those who refuse to wear masks.\n\n“The devastation will be catastrophic at the other end, even worse, if we just don’t do what we’re told right now,” he said.\n\n “We all want to make a stand, but make a stand by doing the right thing now.\n\n“We’ve got to be selfless now, we’ve got to do what’s right for the rest of the state, otherwise we’ll be stuck forever in this mire of being locked in home, feeling like you’re in home detention.”\n\nImage: News Corp Australia Meanwhile SKY commentators post this crap Number of new cases in Vic is STABILISED (not increasing); We ONLY need to lockdown aged-care homes & hospitals due to high mortality; We need to slow virus down,not stop it, it is impractical NOT to accept low numbers of new cases daily;Virus is very contagious,but deadly to few Looks like “paying” for a second
Source: SkyNewsAust - 🏆 7. / 78 Read more »

NRL to investigate possible crowd breach | Sky News AustraliaThe NRL is investigating whether a packed crowd at Sunday’s clash between the Melbourne Storm and Newcastle Knights on the Sunshine Coast breached social distancing rules.\n\nThe sport’s governing body has requested a report from the Sunshine Coast Stadium and the Melbourne Storm, who was hosting the game. ‘A packed crowd broke social distancing rules’ 👌 of cause they breached the rules ,but there different. Rules for NRL ,VFL and RU ,money rules all 🙈🙉🙈🙉,
Source: SkyNewsAust - 🏆 7. / 78 Read more »

SpaceX returns NASA astronauts from orbit | Sky News AustraliaNASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida after 63 days aboard the International Space Station.\n\nThe two astronauts descended in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft which undocked from the station on its own and took off for Earth.\n\nThe pair’s launch on May 30 marked the return of spaceflight to US soil – a feat that hadn’t occurred since 2011 – and the first commercial spacecraft to carry humans into orbit.\n\n“The Demo-2 mission is the final major milestone for SpaceX’s human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station,” SpaceX said. \n\nImage: NASA
Source: SkyNewsAust - 🏆 7. / 78 Read more »

Ripping religious education out from schools will make 'our society poorer’ | Sky News AustraliaSenator James Paterson says the push to remove scripture lessons from schools is “going to make our society poorer.”\n\nPrinciples have been calling for scripture lessons to be held outside of school hours because they allegedly don’t have enough time to teach their students the curriculum. \n\n“I’m not a believer, but I recognise that the secular values which many Australians subscribe to have Judaeo-Christian origins, and religious understanding and religious literacy is really important to understanding our origins and our freedoms in a Western Civilisation,” Mr Paterson told Sky news host Paul Murray. \n\n“Its not about educating people to believe, it’s educating people to understand and frankly, there’s a shocking lack of that in our education system.\n\n“I went through the public-schooling system in Victoria and even then there was almost none of this and now it looks like there’s going to be even less.\n\n“That’s a real shame and that’s going to really make our society poorer.”\n SenPaterson All part of the socialist anti religion program. Without God we have no foundation for real morality. SenPaterson As long as you let other religions like Scientology and satanism have equal access to the kiddies. SenPaterson My Children grew up Buddhists, but I encouraged them to go to Religious classes to learn about our Christian Constitutional Roots. It's so important for our cultural identity and values too.
Source: SkyNewsAust - 🏆 7. / 78 Read more »

WA Premier Mark McGowan’s 'playing politics' with his harsh border closure | Sky News AustraliaThe 'worst player' during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia right now is Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan who is taking the opportunity to play politics, according to Sky News host Paul Murray. \n\nMr McGowan has remained intent on keeping the WA border closed off to the rest of the country for months. \n\nHe declared Clive Palmer an “enemy of the state” over Mr Palmer’s High Court challenge against the state’s hard border. \n\n“(McGowan’s) done his best to make sure it’s all about the border even though last week at the high court the chief medical officer of WA said there was a one percent increase in cases if you followed what has happened in Queensland which is to limit people coming from Victoria and New South Wales,” Mr Murray said\n\n\n\n MarkMcGowanMP But the Govt helping Clive Palmer (the guy who bought the 2019 election for the LNP) sue the state of WA, isn’t playing politics? MarkMcGowanMP Come to WA and say that!!! MarkMcGowanMP by playing politics he means standing up to Murrays bestie scottie and not letting him get his own way re boarders reopened. mcgowan is standing up for the people who elected him and for their lives and long term welfare unlike mate scottie who couldn't give a damn
Source: SkyNewsAust - 🏆 7. / 78 Read more »