{"id":227,"date":"2022-04-13T15:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/common-cause-massachusetts-celebrates-the-appeals-court-decision-in-moran-v-commonwealth\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:40:40","slug":"common-cause-massachusetts-celebrates-the-appeals-court-decision-in-moran-v-commonwealth","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press\/common-cause-massachusetts-celebrates-the-appeals-court-decision-in-moran-v-commonwealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Massachusetts Celebrates the Appeals Court decision in Moran v. Commonwealth"},"template":"","class_list":["post-227","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"\u201cWe hope that this decision marks the end of the partisan-led effort to overturn the 2020 election results. Massachusetts voters deserve to have confidence that our election choices will be honored \u2013 even by losing candidates. We appreciate that the Appeals Court has upheld the lower court\u2019s decision.\u201d\u00a0","featured_image":6117,"press_type":146,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7814}"],"related_issues":[100,108,109,462],"related_work":false,"location":24},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, the Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moran v. Commonwealth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, rejecting a case brought by Republican candidates who lost in the 2020 Massachusetts general election, claiming that ballots cast early and by mail somehow violated the state constitution and should not be counted.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">See the full decision <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/21P0609.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe hope that this decision marks the end of the partisan-led effort to overturn the 2020 election results,\u201d said <\/span><b>Geoff Foster, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cMassachusetts voters deserve to have confidence that our election choices will be honored \u2013 even by losing candidates. We appreciate that the Appeals Court has upheld the lower court\u2019s decision.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Appeals Court affirmed the decision in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moran v. Commonwealth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the grounds of mootness as the 2020 election ended long ago and the temporary no-excuse vote-by-mail law has since expired.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis lawsuit attempted to disenfranchise more than 1.5 million Massachusetts voters who used early and mail ballots to vote in the 2020 election,\u201d Foster said. \u201cThat\u2019s simply inexcusable. Our \u2018government by the people\u2019 depends on people being able to cast our ballots and have them counted. The idea that cast ballots could be tossed out after-the-fact should be offensive to every voter in the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Massachusetts House and Senate have both voted to make no-excuse mail voting permanent in Massachusetts and many legal experts agree that the Massachusetts Constitution permits the legislature to do so.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Common Cause Massachusetts submitted <strong>a legal memo on the constitutionality of no-excuse mail voting<\/strong> to the Joint Committee on Election Laws in 2021. That memo can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/04\/Memo-no-excuse-mail-constl.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common Cause Massachusetts Celebrates the Appeals Court decision in Moran v. 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