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BREAKING NEWS Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots in blow for Republicans
Associated Press via Daily Mail ^ | 11/01/24 | Associated Press, Geoff Earle

Posted on 11/01/2024 4:52:16 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: ridesthemiles

IF counting does not start until polls are closed on TUES-—How do they KNOW MAIL IN BALLOTS are rejected???

They are processing the ballots, not counting them. Most states begining processing ballots before election day. That is checking the names off the voter list, opening the envelopes and separating the identity info, dropping the ballots into a box and then running them through the ballot machine. No totals are printed until after 8 pm on Election day.

Here in Portland Maine they spend 5 days with six ballot machines (3 state and 3 municipal) to keep up with the volume. They have 40,000 ballots to process. It is how we can get it done by midnight on election night.

The public has been welcome to sit and watch the process.


21 posted on 11/01/2024 6:14:48 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Libloather; Paladin2

Good decision.

There are no Presidential elections in the Constitution and the Legislature of Pennsylvania has sovereign power to make rules or pass laws about how Pennsylvania’s Electors are appointed.

IF Pennsylvania laws allow this provisional ballot stupidity, no Federal Court or other entity outside of Pennsylvania has any authority over it - except if the Federal Constitution, as amended, forbids a State from passing any specific law.

For example, the US Constitution would not permit Pennsylvania to appoint Electors through a State election in which women were not allowed to vote.


22 posted on 11/01/2024 6:22:20 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: cowboyusa

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4275129/posts


23 posted on 11/01/2024 6:25:22 PM PDT by knarf
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To: Secret Agent Man
.... aaaand . . . . it's off.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4275129/posts

24 posted on 11/01/2024 6:26:06 PM PDT by knarf
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To: Libloather

SCOTUS aka Supreme Clowns of the US


25 posted on 11/01/2024 6:36:59 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Libloather

I am getting so tired of this. Election procedures need to be standardized across the board, every state, and it needs to be as simple as possible. We all here know how to get that done but blast it, these judges and their democratic counterparts are blatantly screwing things up in order to facilitate their steal.


26 posted on 11/01/2024 6:41:28 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: Paladin2

Might want to read the story? It quotes Alito, not Roberts, in the rejection of the appeal. Seems there was a question of whether Federal Courts had jurisdiction in a state case. I’m not sure I’d call Alito a traitor based on this particular case.


27 posted on 11/01/2024 7:13:12 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Roadrunner383

Which side did Roberts come down on?


28 posted on 11/01/2024 7:42:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ridesthemiles

Because they notify them that their ballot needs to be cured.


29 posted on 11/01/2024 7:59:58 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Libloather

The Trump path to victory is MAGA overwhelming the count by actual election day. It’s going to still be tight. The cheat and steal is in effect.


30 posted on 11/01/2024 9:54:50 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Libloather

Po leti shall correctness is going to be the ruination of this country


31 posted on 11/01/2024 11:35:41 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: knarf

So...the PA supreme court said dates not necessary and then SCOTUS said yes they are? I’m confused about what’s floating around on this


32 posted on 11/02/2024 12:21:27 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

The Bottom Line —

The law says ballots must arrive at the tabulation point by 8 PM election day evening.

What date is hand written on the exterior envelope will have no impact on the 8 PM requirement.

The handwritten date is a requirement without purpose.


33 posted on 11/02/2024 12:23:49 PM PDT by Owen
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