Posted on 11/09/2020 5:15:13 AM PST by Kaslin
What is happening in Pennsylvania is a dark moment for America. Under the leadership of Governor Wolf and his liberal regime, the Pennsylvania elections system has become completely compromised. It has become clear the leadership in this state is anti-democratic, does not value our constitution, and is engaged in an outright attack on the legal votes that have been cast by the good, hardworking people of the Commonwealth.
As the former Secretary of State of Ohio, I have overseen multiple elections in a state that for years has been dedicated to transparent election administration and ensuring there is bipartisanship, fairness, and security that breeds confidence in our results. The actions taken this cycle by the Pennsylvania executive government are abnormal, unethical, and downright corrupt.
It could not be clearer that the Democrat-run Pennsylvania executive government only wants votes counted that support their agenda and their candidates.
The actions Governor Wolf’s administration has taken to slant the vote for their candidates is the most egregious abuse of power I have ever witnessed in my decades of working on elections. It is unconstitutional, un-American, and they must be held accountable.
In mid-September, Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court upended the carefully crafted work of Pennsylvania's legislature by mandating that mail-in ballots received after Election Day be counted. Taking it a step further, the court also ruled that such ballots do not even need a postmark, the key accountability measure to ensure Election Day does not turn into never-ending Election Days.
As if that wasn’t enough, Wolf operative PA Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, who is charged with overseeing the elections process, issued unilateral guidance on October 28 directing counties to canvass these late ballots as soon as possible instead of segregating these ballots as previously directed and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Boockvar also provided eleventh-hour direction for Pennsylvania counties to provide information to voters whose ballots were incorrectly completed. While it is important problematic ballots are resolved, Boockvar gave no clear guidance on how to resolve them. This left county boards of elections confused and inconsistent in resolving these issues, furthering the sea of chaos across Pennsylvania’s ballot counting system.
Pennsylvania's highest court and Secretary Boockvar are complicit in a nationwide plot that intentionally and irresponsibly opened the door to the election chaos we are seeing today.
In John 3:19 it says, "Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil," and Pennsylvania Democrats' desire to conduct this election in the dark is not going unnoticed. What I am seeing here truly saddens me for the future of our democracy.
Thankfully, President Trump and Republicans across America are fighting back, and will not allow this election to be stolen by the partisan hacks who have shown themselves to be enemies of a free and fair election process. The people of Pennsylvania deserve to have every legal vote counted. In my days as Secretary of State in Ohio, this would never have been a question.
The actions taken by Pennsylvania officials exemplify their clear bias against Republicans up and down the ballot. Transparency is crucial in this process and its integrity must be upheld if Americans are to have faith in the results.
He says that the postmark is a “key accountability measure”.
I would consider it a bare minimum, and ask how accurate and immune to fraud it is. There are reports already, from this affair, that it may mean nothing.
He also lauds the state for merely “years” of fair elections. There may indeed, be a few years in there, sprinkled through the centuries. This gives him credibility, in my mind.
Otherwise, he is of course correct in his condemnation.
Thought it was a very good article, especially considering his background. He knew whereof he spoke.
As for the postmarks, I guess it depends. The prepaid ballots didn’t need them, but I’m not sure whether PA did prepaid ballots. And in other cases, the workers were told to backdate their stamps. These clearly wouldn’t be legal, but I don’t know if there’s any way of sorting them out.
Otherwise, the postmarks must be pretty reliable, which is why the Dems fought so hard against deadlines and then the local election boards went and imposed their own “flexible” standards.
I think the latter move may actually end up invalidating a lot of “votes,” because in PA it is not legal for local election boards to use any laws or orders other than those proceeding from the state legislature.
Dems have been cheating in big cities for years.....time honored tradition. This is exacerbated when blacks took over the cities because any accusation of impropriety is met with racism cries.
I believe Dems overplayed their hand this time......too many statistical anomalies to just say, oh well, we lost. Plus the guy at the top knows the cheating is going on and for once we have a guy who will fight.
Love it.
Don’t blame Wolf. They have a GOP controlled legislature. They state GOP conceded the PA Supreme Court a few years back and let the left weaponize it and then has sat on its hands and silently watched Wolfe establish a dictatoriship while making occasional noises about how deeply upset they are about it. It’s on them every bit as much as on Wolf.
Thanks for the reply and the reliability of the postmark date is exactly the issue in using it as a legal requirement.
I have seen the articles on FR referencing backdating it. If that can be done, it is worthless.
It may have some merit in individual mail use. The PO can’t know to change the date on a check you mailed. But this is completely different.
If it is true that the postmark dates seen in PA have been altered, then they will be worthless in applying the state law.
60 minutes segment ridiculing allegations of 2020 election fraud in pennsylvania.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWWe_rYwGH4
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