Posted on 11/12/2020 11:10:10 AM PST by truthkeeper
A Pennsylvania judge ruled in favor of the Trump campaign Thursday, ordering that the state may not count ballots where the voters needed to provide proof of identification and failed to do so by Nov. 9.
State law said that voters have until six days after the election — this year that was Nov. 9 — to cure problems regarding a lack of proof of identification. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots could be accepted three days after Election Day, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar submitted guidance that said proof of identification could be provided up until Nov. 12, which is six days from the ballot acceptance deadline. That guidance was issued two days before Election Day.
“[T]he Court concludes that Respondent Kathy Boockvar, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Commonwealth, lacked statutory authority to issue the November 1, 2020, guidance to Respondents County Boards of Elections insofar as that guidance purported to change the deadline … for certain electors to verify proof of identification,” Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said in a court order.
READ THE COURT ORDER HERE
This was in line with the Trump campaign’s argument, which was that there was no basis in the state’s law to extend the identification deadline, and that Boockvar did not have the power to unilaterally change it...
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It's a start.
I’ll take any win at this point :) thanks for posting
Of those 10,000 ballots, the ones for Biden should be disqualified.
This is a good start. Especially from a state court. Hoping —
YUGE!
Of course, a federal court will chime in next.
It’s not huge but a tiny victory in the hopes of it being the first of many tiny victories enough to convince SCOTUS to provide Trump the path he needs.
PA and GA also don’t get him there. He needs AZ, WI, or MI. I don’t hold out hope for NV but maybe that will do it.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Trump has only just begun to fight!
I’ll GUARANTEE MOST were for Biden.
It is a substantial start. 10K is not chump fraud.
probably- but then it’s on to supreme court- if Penn lacked the authority to change the law- then the SC can’t do anything but rule in Trumps’ favor- on paper anyways-
bttt
Interesting if true. I see the story is from something called Faux News, so I will seek independent confirmation.
This is the “Article II argument,” or at least it appears to be. In 2000, this argument was well discussed in the concurrence signed by Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas.
The Constitution says that the method for choosing electors is SOLELY determined by state legislatures. This would mean that a state court couldn’t re-write the procedures. This line of reasoning, though perfectly logical, didn’t get a majority. RBG and Breyer specifically dissented against this on the basis of God only knows what. I read it 20 years ago. Not reading it again. If this issue gets to the appellate level, those opinions will be the basis of the briefs submitted.
From that Court 20 years ago, only Thomas and Breyer remain. We know what Kagan and Wise (fat) Latinx will do. That leaves Roberts (LOL), Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
Bush v. Gore was decided on equal protection grounds. The facts of that case were a little better for an equal protection argument than what is currently happening, though it’s still a very strong argument. Florida had counties using different methods of actually counting votes. Not different hours, but different rules for what even constituted a vote. There’s some of that going on, but the Article II argument might be the winner this time. Just win. Don’t care how.
Of those 10,000 ballots, the ones for Biden should be disqualified.
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Lol! I see what you did there
The toughest part is going to be proving that massive ‘Back Dating” took place on ballots that arrived after they were supposed to- Hopefully enough whistleblowers have come forward to establish that systemic fraud was taking place in the postal service- seems like a lot are coming forward now-
The Postal Service thought they could bully the first guy into silence, but now they have many more and it’s too late for the ps- the cat is out of the bag now!
I agree, but Justice Roberts is a Bushbot never-Trumper, and I’m afraid of how he’ll act on every issue that involves Trump.
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