The fate of Delawareâs mail-in voting and same-day registration statutes — and Delawareansâ ability to do both in the Nov. 8 general election — rests in the hands of the Delaware Supreme Court. The court heard oral arguments on the matter Thursday in Dover. Depending on its decision, the vote-by-mail statute passed by the General Assembly in July and deemed …
Delaware Supreme Court to hear vote-by-mail appeal Thursday
The Delaware Supreme Court on Thursday will consider whether the stateâs new mail-in voting law violates the Delaware Constitution. The Department of Elections appealed an earlier ruling from the Delaware Court of Chancery deeming the law unconstitutional. RELATED: Delaware judge halts mail-in voting âMy injunction in this matter was compelled by an advisory decision from five decades ago that, in …
Vote-by-mail ruling: More complex than simply barring it
Republicans were quick to say âwe told you soâ Thursday as word spread that a Chancery Court judge had ruled that Delawareâs new vote-by-mail law violates the state Constitution. Democrats were quick to say the ruling â all but guaranteed to be appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court â will disenfranchise voters, especially low-income voters and people of color. …
Is mail-in voting unconstitutional? Chancery judge to decide
Delawareâs mail-in voting law was the subject of a four-hour-long hearing before the stateâs Court of Chancery Wednesday. Vice Chancellor Nathan Cook will now decide whether the new law violates the state Constitution by allowing voters to cast their ballots from a place other than their designated polling location without having an allowed excuse under the Constitutionâs absentee voting provision. …
Mail-in voting lawsuits set for court hearing Wednesday
Two lawsuits challenging Delawareâs mail-in voting system will be the subject of a hearing in the Delaware Court of Chancery Wednesday. The suits were brought on behalf of numerous plaintiffs by GOP chair Jane Brady and Republican candidate for attorney general Julianne Murray. Brady and Murray are representing the plaintiffs in their capacities as private attorneys â not on behalf …
Delaware LIVE Weekly Review â July 31, 2022
Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Weekâs Top Headlines Include: Headlines House speaker refuses to consider McGuiness removal Delaware lawmakers eye major state capitol expansion DOJ responds to McGuinessâ claims of unfair trial: âShe is wrongâ Hereâs how $600M in COVID education money was spent Culture Baking up a good time: State Fair attracts culinary …
AG candidate Murray sues Dept. of Elections over mail-in voting
A Republican candidate for attorney general has filed suit against the Delaware Department of Elections over a new law that allows voters to request and submit ballots through the mail. The lawsuit marks the second legal challenge to Senate Bill 320, both filed in the Court of Chancery by well-known members of Delawareâs Republican Party. Julianne Murray, a Georgetown-based lawyer …
Delaware GOP unveils ‘Rescue Delaware’ plan at state convention
Delaware state Republicans on Saturday introduced a plan to âRescue Delawareâ during a state convention that featured a slate of uncontested statewide GOP candidates and rallying cries to stand against âwoke-ism,â election-tampering and the âradical left.â The newly-minted âRescue Delawareâ agenda includes policy objectives the party believes are âsupported by a majority of Delawareans across all party linesâ and will …
Delaware LIVE Weekly Review â September 19, 2021
Hover over the image below and a gray bar pops up at the bottomâscroll through the pdf, use direction arrows, zoom in or out, download the PDF, or view in full-screen mode. [pdf-embedder url=”/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DelawareLive-Sept-19-1.pdf” title=”DelawareLive-Sept 19″] This Weekâs Top Headlines Include: Headlines Darius Brown follows other legislators into job partly funded by state Hagley damage may hit $2 million, and …
GOPâs Julianne Murray to run for AG on law-and-order platform
Julianne Murray says that as attorney general she’ll take the victims’ sides in law enforcement. Photo by Dan Zitofsky on Facebook. Sussex County attorney and former Republican gubernatorial candidate, Julianne Murray, announced her candidacy for attorney general Thursday afternoon in front of the Wilmington Police Department. Murray said her candidacy was the first step in an âimportant quest to …
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