Posted on 09/20/2020 2:51:16 PM PDT by karpov
Three days late, and no postmark needed: That’s the ruling on mail votes from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. State law clearly says absentee ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day. But on Thursday the court controlled by Democrats, in a case filed by Democrats, rewrote the law in a 4-3 vote, with four Democrats in the majority, 47 days before Nov. 3.
“There is no ambiguity regarding the deadline set by the General Assembly,” the court’s majority admits. To overturn it, they cite a line in Pennsylvania’s constitution: “Elections shall be free and equal; and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage.” How does that language empower judges to ignore the ballot deadline? We’ll wait while readers search for emanations and penumbras.
Pennsylvania’s election laws are flawed. Voters can request an absentee ballot as late as 5 p.m. on Oct. 27, seven days before the votes are due. The majority opinion calls this “an extremely condensed timeline” that “will unquestionably fail under the strain of COVID-19 and the 2020 Presidential Election, resulting in the disenfranchisement of voters.”
Before the state’s June 2 primary, a crush of applications meant that many ballots went out late. “An elector cannot exercise the franchise,” the majority says, “while her ballot application is awaiting processing in a county election board nor when her ballot is sitting in a USPS facility.” Thus the court orders that ballots be counted if they arrive by Nov. 6. If their postmarks are missing or illegible, they will be “presumed to have been mailed by Election Day” unless evidence shows otherwise.
The court’s feigned modesty elsewhere in the ruling is hilarious by comparison.
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“Votes will be allowed to be counted for whatever period of time is required and irregardless of the postmark. The vote tallies can continue until the DNC has confirmed that enough votes have been counted”.
They used that same “rule” in Washington years ago when the Republican candidate for Governor was in the lead. I think they needed four vote counts to finally get the “correct” number (”Okay - stop the recount!”) which put the Dem in office.
https://youtu.be/I5PInhXkfvs
Democrats will find 50,000 'illegible' marked ballots in the trunk of someone's car...if that's what's needed for them to win.
“I could be wrong, but I think it is a state issue, since each state makes it’s own voting process (although, if I remember correctly, there should be an issue of changing the law within the voting period).”
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It is a state LEGISLATURE issue per the US Constitution. It’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL for the state Supreme Court to usurp the state legislature’s responsibility to make that law.
I keep hoping POTUS/DOJ ..... SOMEONE has a plan to put a stop to this, and EVERY cheat scam, planned by lefties, for this election.
You go girl. Antifa are looking for guys like you.
This has precedent. Courts can’t write law. They try and try, but this won’t fly on appeal.
Here is why we need another SCOTUS appointment right now. These state decisions will ultimately end up at SCOTUS as did the Florida Supreme Court’s in Bush v Gore.
By allowing vote by mail outside of the absentee system, Democrats created this “crisis”.
Now they use the excuse that ballots may arrive late to change the election rules.
The legislature should eliminate vote by mail, which would cure all the problems.
The 5 Democrat justices on Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court were Soros backed during an non-presidential election year.
They were the ones who unilaterally threw out the legislature’s congressional boundaries and drew their own, favoring Democrats. This gave Democrats 2 more seats in 2018 from Pennsylvania.
The PA Legislature was blocked at every turn.
Just as the PA Legislature has been blocked in stopping the Governor’s arbitrary, destructive and personally vindictive unilateral Covid mandates.
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