Posted on 11/01/2022 8:36:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An election-shaking decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court appears to have averted a brewing constitutional crisis. The state’s high court has found that mail-in ballots that violate the law regarding improper dating should be separated off and not counted on election night.
In October, I wrote a piece detailing the attempted flaunting of the law by Democrats, nothing the arbitrary and lawless nature of counting invalid ballots.
As RedState previously reported, the Supreme Court vacated a state court decision requiring Pennsylvania to count un-dated mail-in ballots. The plain letter of the law requires that a mail-in ballot must be filled, signed, and dated in order to be counted. Despite that, Democrat state officials have pledged to defy the law, giving guidance to counties that they not only should un-dated ballots be counted, but they aren’t even required to be sequestered pending further legal action.
Their reasoning? That voters shouldn’t be disenfranchised based on a “technical violation.”
Who gets to decide what “technical violations” can be ignored? That would seem to be a dangerous road to go down in regards to simply shunning the law based on an arbitrary judgment by a partisan state official. Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting law isn’t ambiguous. It pointedly says that ballots must be dated to be counted.
Now, because of the new ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the ballots will not be counted on election night. Instead, they have been ordered to be sequestered pending further legal action.
News: Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules in favor of RNC and orders county board of electors to refrain from counting mail-in ballots "that are contained in undated or incorrectly dated outer envelopes." https://t.co/5UMNnObuar
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) November 1, 2022
The United States Supreme Court had already vacated a prior decision in Pennsylvania ordering the counting of the invalid ballots. Many may remember how contentious of a subject that was during the 2020 election.
In response to the US Supreme Court’s ruling, Democrats decided to essentially ignore it, citing a non-binding ruling from a lower court judge. Worse, state officials (all of them Democrats) weren’t even requiring the separating off of the questionable ballots pending ongoing legal action that could see them ruled inadmissible in the election. In short, Democrats were trying to shove through a bunch of invalid ballots in hopes of running out the clock, leaving no way to fix the situation in the future.
It was reminiscent of some of the Biden administration’s maneuvers where the president has chosen to break the law with the plan to get what he wants before the courts can step in. The now-struck-down eviction moratorium is a good example of that. With the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stepping in over the mail-in ballots just a week before the mid-terms, though, perhaps the courts are getting wise to the left’s game.
And while there’s a chance these invalid ballots could be counted at a later date, there’s more reason to believe that won’t happen. Even considering that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is split evenly on the matter so far, are its members really willing to change the result of an election weeks or even months after it has concluded?
Color me extremely skeptical that they’ll be up for ignoring the law to that extent. Yes, courts aren’t supposed to be influenced by outside reactions, but I would think there are limits to how far they themselves want to go. Imagine a world in which Republican Mehmet Oz wins on election night and then Democrat John Fetterman is declared the winner three months later, flipping control of the US Senate back to the Democratic Party. I don’t even want to think about that
Regardless, this entire thing never should have gotten this far. You literally have Democrats saying they are going to simply ignore duly-passed election laws because they see a partisan benefit in it. While this decision is necessary, far more needs to happen to discourage and punish that kind of behavior in the future. If Americans can’t trust that their election laws will be followed, then there’s no country left to save.
And when the DEMs flip the bird at the courts and count them anyway, resulting in DEM stolen elections?
Kind of proud of the Pubbies.
Finally learning to defend themselves again.
After almost half a century straight of cowering on federal election day, and during the weeks- and months-long run-up thereto, as the Donkey Party predictably stole its lunch money.
See the following (a New Jersey special):
That’s right. Just like in 2020. They will just go ahead and count them anyway.
Well be lucky to see this race decided by Christmas
And the democrat will be declared the winner regardless of the vote count discrepancies
And PA goes red.
“The Supreme Court has made its decision; now let it enforce it.” — some other Democrat.
Now, about those 240,000 ballots sent to unverified voters . . .
CYA for the steal. Half measure since mail in ballots aren’t legal in PA according to law.
Sure . . .
As if the RATs will follow the rules.
They’ll try to count ‘em, no doubt. At which time, a very angry PA SC might say “do over”.
At your expense, from the top.
Prayers for Pennsylvania.
Is there a way to separate these ?
RE: Now, about those 240,000 ballots sent to unverified voters . . .
In a just world, the PA Supreme Court decision should cover this — IWO, THEY SHOULD NOT BE COUNTED. PERIOD.
But we don’t live in a just world and PA is not a just state, so ....
So no crayon markings on suspect, late ballots that have a vote for “Felcherman”.
Thank you, Harmeet Dhillon, for taking up and winning the fight.
This was written and codified in law. Their law. Their state law. Legally passed by their own legislature.
And they had to take it all the way in bitter fighting to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to make them follow their own law?????
If there is one thing that this illustrates to me it is the massive amounts of election fraud the Left is engaging in, for this to bubble to the surface.
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