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>Try mailing your tax return on the 17th but sign and date it on the 15th and
>see if the IRS buys that crap.  They won't and don't, and both the case law
>and the construction of statutes on this point are clear.

But they'll take your payment and consider it paid, they might add
late penalties etc, but for example if it's otherwise proper you
certainly won't be considered delinquent or in evasion for the amount
sent in, and any penalties etc will have a new clock.

So, there might be remedies for accepting late ballots which don't
reject the votes, just as there are remedies for accepting a late tax
payment, etc.

Even most (slightly) late tax payments are accepted without penalty,
and it doesn't take a dispensation from the pope to be forgiven for
even pretty late payments and have penalties removed.

Put more clearly: As we've been seeing with these judges' decisions
the rules are just not that simple or black and white, and an
otherwise legitimate vote might well be considered if, late or not,
it's still representative of a legitimate voter's legitimate vote.


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        -Barry Shein

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