Pennsylvania Supreme Court extends state mail ballot deadline to 3 days after election [Must be postmarked.]

Fox News ^ | September 17, 2020 | Caitlin McFall

[familyop]

Now ballots will be counted if they're received by 5 p.m. on Nov. 6 -- as long as they're postmarked by 8 p.m. on Election Day, according to the court’s order.

[martinidon]

Well the courts will change the day after the election anyway because someone will sue and claim their vote was not counted. the courts will extend it until they find enough Biden votes.

[Vermont Lt]

Ballots are not prepaid.

[faithhopecharity]

so the entire world is supposed to wait while the DNC sends in its warehouses of extra fake votes (that Pennsylvania says don’t have to match the signatures on file)

PA, already troublesome with Philadelphia rigged voting, is looking to become the next Polk County (florida hanging chads) case

[SecondAmendment]

Three days after the election is more than enough time for the leftists to fraudulently overcome their losing margin on Election Day ....

[Brookhaven]

They are also establishing drop-boxes for ballots that will go directly to the ballot counters, thus bypassing the post office. No postmark required.

[odawg]

“Mark Levin has the solution, the Pennsylvania Legislature needs to overrule this tomorrow.”

Yes. All I ever hear is people stating the problem and enumerating the consequences. It is high time for the people who have the authority and the ability to do something about the fraud to actually do something.

[gibsonguy]

“ballots received without a post mark are presumed to have been mailed in a timely manner unless there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”

There is the cheat door and it’s wide open. How the hell are you going to get “overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”

[shanover]

Lose PA,lose the whole thing. This is why the Covid scam is in battle ground states.

[doc maverick]

This should give demon-rats ample time to get together the ample number of fake ballots through the mail if Trump is ahead on election night.

[ConservativeMind]

Anyone with a postage meter can postmark in the past or future.

[Pollard]

Must be postmarked by Nov 3rd but they will accept them up to Nov 6th. Allowing for mail delays it sounds like.

CONCLUSION

Based onour disposition of all of the claims set forth above, we grant relief on the claims set forth in Counts I, II, and V of the Democratic Party’s petition for review as followsand hold that: (Count I) the Election Code permits county boards of election to collect hand-delivered mail-in ballots at locations other than their office addressesincluding drop-boxesas indicated herein, seesupra. at 20 n. 15;(Count II) a three-day extension of the absentee and mail-in ballot received-by deadlineis adopted such that35Respondent has not asserted that the Pennsylvania Constitution offers greater protection under the circumstances presented. Thus, for purposes of our review, we treat them as co-extensive.

[J-96-2020] -63ballots mailedby voters via the United States Postal Service and postmarked by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day , November 3, 2020, shall be counted if they are otherwise valid and received by the county boards of election on or before 5:00 p.m. onNovember6, 2020; ballots received within this period that lack a postmark or other proof of mailing, or for which the postmark or other proof of mailing is illegible, will be presumed to have been mailed by Election Day unless a preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that it was mailed after Election Day; (Count V) the poll watcher residency requirement set forth in Section 2687(b) of the Election Code, 25 P.S. §2687(b), is constitutional. Also,for the reasons set forth herein, we deny the relief sought in Count IIIand IVof the petition for review

last page, Page 63, http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Supreme/out/J-96-2020mo%20-%20104548450113066639.pdf?cb=1

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I see the bad moon a-rising.

[TexasGator]

“That’s not what is being reported on Lou Dobbs at this very moment.
According to Lou Dobbs the ruling says that Post Marks are NOT necessary and that signature mismatches are not disqualifying. He has Tom Fitton as a guest discussing this right now.”

The court order allows ballots received by Nov. 6 to be counted with a postmark earlier than 8 PM Nov 3.

If. NO postmark and received by Nov. 6 it will be counted.

The order does not specifically address signature matching.

[MAGAthon]

17 Sept: NPR: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Extends Vote By Mail Deadline, Allows Drop Boxes
by Sam Gringlas
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down several voting-related decisions Thursday that are likely to help Democrats this fall...
The Pennsylvania Department of State says nearly two million people have already asked for mail ballots for the upcoming election — and that figure is expected to grow...

Mail ballots will now be accepted if they are received by 5 p.m. on the Friday after the election and were either postmarked by Nov. 3 ***or there is no evidence to suggest they were sent after Election Day...

More Democrats are expected to vote by mail than Republicans, in part because President Trump for months has seeded doubts, without any evidence, about the integrity of mail ballots.
The ruling to give the legal green light to drop boxes is another win for the Democrats...

The court’s decision to prevent the Green Party candidate, Howie Hawkins, from appearing on the ballot, could also help Democratic nominee Joe Biden...

And in a win for Republicans, the court blocked people from delivering other voters’ absentee ballots — a practice Democrats call “community collection” and Republicans deem “ballot harvesting.”...

“Today’s decision makes Pennsylvania’s elections less secure and opens the door to serious questions about the integrity of the process in one of the most significant national and state elections in recent memory,” Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff wrote...
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/914160122/pennsylvania-supreme-court-extends-vote-by-mail-deadline-allows-drop-boxes

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course there's no Federal judge...perhaps one appointed by Osama Obama...who will rule sometime in mid November that that requirement violates some obscure right.

Boys and girls...this one's gonna be won in the courts.And I mean the state *and* the Federal courts.Very probably in early December.

Remember November/December 2000? November/December of this year will make that look like a picnic in the park. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VuvyItN3es

[familyop]

"They are also establishing drop-boxes for ballots that will go directly to the ballot counters, thus bypassing the post office. No postmark required."

I saw that in Colorado. That and marijuana legalization turned the state sharply to the left.

[doc maverick]

This all needs to stop! If people an GO TO THE LOCAL WALMART, THEY CAN GO TO THE LOCAL POLLING STATION

[Revel]

These leftist judges have truly turned us into a banana republic. The republicans need to shout that is election fraud from the hilltops. And don’t stop shouting ever.

And I thought that federal government had some say in federal elections.

[timestax]

This all needs to stop! If people an GO TO THE LOCAL WALMART, THEY CAN GO TO THE LOCAL POLLING STATION

THAT'S RIGHT!

[gibsonguy]

Bottom line this is a rat court. The People of PA have six weeks to get their ballots in. The only reason the scumbags only this court would do this would to allow the rats to stuff in ballots when they will know how many they will need to overcome a Trump lead. As another poster said the postmark date is easily faked.