10 Reasons Pennsylvania’s Election Results May Be ‘Irredeemably Compromised’

PJ Media ^ | November 10, 2020 | Tyler O'Neil

[PJ-Comix]

On Monday, the campaign to reelect President Donald Trump filed a mammoth lawsuit accusing Pennsylvania Secretary Kathy Boockvar and county elections boards throughout the state of violating the U.S. Constitution by unilaterally revising the law in a manner that deprives some voters of their rights to a free and fair election.

“In a rush to count mail ballots and ensure Democrat Joe Biden is elected, Pennsylvania has created an illegal two-tiered voting system for the 2020 General Election, devaluing in-person votes,” the lawsuit alleges.

“For voters that appeared at the polls, those citizens were required to sign voter registrations, have those signatures checked against voter rolls, vote in a polling place monitored by statutorily-authorized poll observers, and have their votes counted in a transparent and verifiable open and observed manner. By contrast, due to the arbitrary, unauthorized, and standardless actions of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Kathy Boockvar, nearly 2.65 million votes were cast through a ‘mail-in’ process that lacked all of the hallmarks of transparency and verifiability that were present for in-person voters,” the suit claims.

[HamiltonJay]

Provisional ballots are likely to gain trump 30-35k votes when they are all counted.

If the supremes enforce the law and throw out all late absentee ballots. Trump will win PA.

However need more than that to get to 270

[PJ-Comix]

GA if they were doing their job there. The GA sec of state is a complete INCOMPETENT. Florida is a larger state that GA and it got its complete count done in just a few hours yet a week later, GA is still counting.

[Phillyred]

I think we need the national guard for all elections. Make the dems observe from the back of the room.

[Political Junkie Too]

No.

Congress' powers are:

1. Congress can choose the winner in the case of nobody getting a majority of appointed Electors in the Electoral College.
2. Congress can refuse to seat a Congressman if they think the results were tainted (each chamber is the judge of the qualifications of their own members.

Article II Section 1 gives the state legislatures the power to choose the method of selecting Electors. If the election is so tainted that the state is at risk of losing its representation in the Electoral College, the Constitutional thing to do is for the Legislature to meet in special session to vote to choose the Electors directly.

Here is how I think they should do it:

1. Have their GOP legislature make a vote of no confidence in the outcome of the election, citing a) widespread non-compliance with the election laws as passed by the legislature, b) numerous examples (and affidavits) of suspicious behavior in the counting of the votes, and c) the vote count as of the end of election day. A court finding would help, too.
2. Have a second vote to express the sentiment of the legislature that the people of their state intended to vote for President Trump. Cite in-person voting (early and same-day) as justification.
3. Have a third vote to exercise their Article II Section 1 power to appoint the Trump slate of electors to the Electoral College.

This should give the legislature political cover for their next reelections.

-PJ

[kiryandil]

Here's the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit [As of July 17, 2019]:

Judges:  	 14
Circuit Justice: Samuel Alito
Chief Judge:     D. Brooks Smith

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Age	Title	        Judge	                Duty station	  Born	Term of service	                Appointed by
69	Chief Judge	D. Brooks Smith	        Duncansville, PA  1951	2002–present   &2016–present	G.W. Bush
73	Circuit Judge	Theodore McKee	        Philadelphia, PA  1947	1994–present   &2010–2016      	Clinton
71	Circuit Judge	Thomas L. Ambro	        Wilmington, DE	  1949	2000–present	—	—	Clinton
58	Circuit Judge	Michael Chagares	Newark, NJ	  1962	2006–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
63	Circuit Judge	Kent A. Jordan	        Wilmington, DE	  1957	2006–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
55	Circuit Judge	Thomas Hardiman	      * Pittsburgh, PA	  1965	2007–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
63	Circuit Judge	Joseph A. Greenaway Jr.	Newark, NJ	  1957	2010–present	—	—	Obama
59	Circuit Judge	Patty Shwartz	        Newark, NJ	  1961	2013–present	—	—	Obama
52	Circuit Judge	Cheryl Ann Krause	Philadelphia, PA  1968	2014–present	—	—	Obama
61	Circuit Judge	Luis Felipe Restrepo	Philadelphia, PA  1959	2016–present	—	—	Obama
51	Circuit Judge	Stephanos Bibas	      * Philadelphia, PA  1969	2017–present	—	—	Trump
54	Circuit Judge	David J. Porter       * Pittsburgh, PA	  1966	2018–present	—	—	Trump
49	Circuit Judge	Paul Matey	      * Newark, NJ	  1971	2019–present	—	—	Trump
47	Circuit Judge	Peter J. Phipps	        Pittsburgh, PA	  1973	2019–present	—	—	Trump

=========================                                                               Senior Circuit
88	Senior Circuit  Dolores Sloviter	inactive	  1932	1979–2013	2013–present	Carter   &1991–1998  
86	Senior Circuit 	Walter King Stapleton	Wilmington, DE	  1934	1985–1999	1999–present	Reagan
87	Senior Circuit 	Morton Ira Greenberg	Trenton, NJ	  1933	1987–2000	2000–present	Reagan
80	Senior Circuit 	Anthony Joseph Scirica	Philadelphia, PA  1940	1987–2013	2013–present	Reagan   &2003–2010
90	Senior Circuit 	Robert Cowen	        Trenton, NJ	  1930	1987–1998	1998–present	Reagan
80	Senior Circuit 	Richard Lowell Nygaard	Erie, PA	  1940	1988–2005	2005–present	Reagan
85	Senior Circuit 	Jane Richards Roth	Washington, D.C.  1935	1991–2006	2006–present	G.H.W. Bush
73	Senior Circuit 	Midge Rendell	        Philadelphia, PA  1947	1997–2015	2015–present	Clinton
74	Senior Circuit 	Julio M. Fuentes	Newark, NJ	  1946	2000–2016	2016–present	Clinton
76	Senior Circuit 	D. Michael Fisher	Pittsburgh, PA	  1944	2003–2017	2017–present	G.W. Bush

& denotes Chief Judge of the Court
* denotes Federalist Society member
# denotes Federalist Society associate

[Phillyred]

Montgomery and Delaware County PA numbers are so fraudy. Check out the difference between 2016 and 2020 in that county. Over 100,000 more. That is the difference in the election.

[plain talk]

On a Birmingham radio show this morning a person called in and said they received a PA mail-in ballot which they had not requested.

The person said they used to live in PA but moved away in 1989. Apparently they were still on their voter rolls. They didn’t send it in but wondered if it would have been counted if they had sent it in.

[lepton]

Throw out the state as a whole - state doesn’t count in EC.

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Not correct. Election doesn’t count in the EC, but legislature can still participate by selecting a slate of Electors - if they have the guts.

[lepton]

Okay, let’s say the Safe Harbor day in December arrives and the votes are still in either dispute or being adjudicated. What happens then? Does that mean NO electoral votes from the state in question when the electoral votes are counted on Dec. 14?

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The Legislature gets to pick.

[Secret Agent Man]

Elections are the constitution put into action by all the voting citizens.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

This should be an interesting case. I know that courts are extremely reluctant to overturn or discard an election, but when the number of errors and the consequences of these errors are so drastic, I can’t see how they can simply ignore it. But, I wonder what other remedies there might be.

[Chaguito]

14th Amenment, laws changed arbitrarily outside the legislature to disadvantage a portion of the citizenry. Federal case, it is.

[Brian Griffin]

New York State law could require Hillary Clinton write down the names of her chosen electors every four years.

State law doesn’t have to be fair.

State law can leave discretion such as signature verification to officials and judges, but officials and judges can’t fundamentally change election law, only function within it.

[Fido969]

PA is a special case. They won’t be able to sort out good from bad ballots are far as ballot harvesting, etc, but they can disallow the votes received after 8 o’clock, which the law clearly requires, and those have been segregated.

Disallowing those will give Trump the win, without having to sort out that mess. It get a fair and correct result easily.

[Fido969]

Throw out the state as a whole - state doesn’t count in EC.

You realize that will guarantee a Biden win.

[Brian Griffin]

“In a rush to count mail ballots”

Election theft appears to be a rather slow process.

Mishandling of mail ballots is where problems arise.

[Brian Griffin]

“Under Pennsylvania law, voters must return their own ballots. The only exceptions to this are for voters with a disability who have designated someone in writing to deliver their ballot.”

https://www.votespa.com/Voting-in-PA/Pages/Mail-and-Absentee-Ballot.aspx

Ballot harvesting is an exception, not the rule in PA.

[Jim Noble]

Two ways to go. Throw out the state as a whole - state doesn’t count in EC. Throw out compromised counties. State still contributes to EC.

Responsibility for both EXPLICITLY belongs to Congress in Article II and Amendment XII.

These are nonjusticeable political questions, 5 originalist judges will refuse to hear any of these cases.

[chimera]

PA is a special case. They won’t be able to sort out good from bad ballots are far as ballot harvesting, etc, but they can disallow the votes received after 8 o’clock, which the law clearly requires, and those have been segregated.

Disallowing those will give Trump the win, without having to sort out that mess. It get a fair and correct result easily.

You are correct, this one should be an easy rule for the USSC. The courts are reluctant to overturn election results based on claims of fraud, such as dead people voting, miscounted ballots, etc. They should give weight to sanctioning such illegality, but for some reason they don't.

But they do seem to be open to ruling on matters of process. That's basically what happened in Bush v. Gore. The Gore campaign wanted to recount selectively and the Court said no, you can't change the rules in midstream simply because it will help your case. Likewise here. The law says the ballots must be in by a certain date and time. No ballot received after the cutoff date and time will be accepted and counted as valid. The USSC says you have to follow your own laws. Of all the challenges out there, this one seems pretty straightforward.

[usconservative]

Third option: throw out all the mail in ballots, period.

Fourth option: throw out all mail in ballots w/o signatures and not returned properly (not in secrecy envelope, etc..)

Finally, haven't we all learned that this is EXACTLY WHY no other country in the world has mail-in ballots en masse like this?

FFS, people stood in line to vote in Iraq and Afghanistan, risking their lives to vote and have their fingers dipped in purple dye to show they voted.

WTF is wrong with America? Bunch of panzies in this country.

I stood in line for almost two hours to vote. Four lower back surgeries, wasn't allowed to have a fold up chair to sit in, nothing. No "express" line for people like me, and I stood their and waited with HUNDREDS of people in front of and behind me during a pandemic. All while a bunch of panzies sat at home, marked a ballot and then whined about how hard it was.

All those people can kiss my lilly white backside. If you refuse to show up then maybe you SHOULDN'T vote! With the exception of the infirmed, handicapped, elderly and those living abroad like our military, there's zero reason to not show up and physically vote.

Bunch of sissies in this country. If that offends anyone, IDGAF. Bunch of damn' sissies. My God, if WW3 were to break out this country would be f**ked.