# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)

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**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1576 "2020-11-01T21:56:11Z")

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> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#):
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> > [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> > And SCOTUS tends to defer to state-level decisions on voting matters, when decisions are available
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> That was before this current court.

No, even this one. There’s an article posted in Politics and Elections that discusses it. And IIRC, the relevant decisions were 5-3.

> [@How big of a deal is today’s Supreme Court decision to allow PA vote count?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-big-of-a-deal-is-today-s-supreme-court-decision-to-allow-pa-vote-count/923373/99):
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> A Washington Post article explaining the contradictory Supreme Court decisions: "And when he wrote a short opinion, it was somewhere between liberals who believe dramatic accommodations are warranted during a pandemic and conservatives who say the judiciary should not second-guess state legislatures, who are entitled to set the rules. Roberts is skeptical of federal judges intervening in those decisions, but defers when state courts and election boards step in. So Roberts, along with his fell…

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