Tom Fitton
@TomFitton
HUGE Victory for election integrity up in Pennsylvania yesterday where the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a Pennsylvania law that requires voters using mail-in ballots to “fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on [the] envelope” before returning a completed ballot. The Left objects to any ballot being invalidated as a result of failing to include a proper date on the envelope. The majority decision upheld this voter integrity measure and rejected the Left’s misuse of the “race card” in concluding that it does not violate federal civil rights law:
“’Casting a vote, whether by following the directions for using a voting machine or completing a paper ballot, requires compliance with certain rules.’ ...States have legitimate interests in regulating the voting process and in imposing restrictions on voters to preserve ‘the integrity and reliability of the electoral process.’ ...we know no authority that the ‘right to vote’ encompasses the right to have a ballot counted that is defective under state law.”
Interestingly, the court’s decision indirectly demonstrates that the counting of date-defective mail-in ballots in the 2020 election was unlawful! (Mass mail-in voting, in my view, should be eliminated completely.)
Either way, the appellate decision is a big blow to the Left’s efforts to make it easier to steal elections by making it easier to commit voter fraud...
11:15 AM · Mar 28, 2024