Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar
Of course this has NOTHING to do with November's Presidential Election fraud! /S
Posted on 02/01/2021 11:02:27 AM PST by lightman
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s top election official will resign after her agency’s staff discovered a mistake that will block voters from deciding this spring whether to allow survivors of decades-old sexual abuse to sue the perpetrators.
The Department of State did not advertise, as required, a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would open a two-year window for litigation by survivors of child sexual abuse who have aged out of the statute of limitations.
Secretary Kathy Boockvar, who oversaw a tense and difficult presidential election in the battleground state, will resign Feb. 5, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday. Spotlight PA first reported the news.
“This change at the Department of State has nothing to do with the administration of the 2020 election, which was fair and accurate,” Wolf said. “The delay caused by this human error will be heartbreaking for thousands of survivors of childhood sexual assault, advocates, and legislators, and I join the Department of State in apologizing to you. I share your anger and frustration that this happened, and I stand with you in your fight for justice.”
The two-year window was a key recommendation in a blistering 2018 report by a statewide grand jury that investigated the coverup of decades of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. It is backed by the state’s community of survivors, who have been pushing for the change for nearly two decades.
The mistake means that the earliest voters can decide whether to make the change is the spring of 2023.
In a statement, the Department of State apologized for the error and said it has “instituted new controls to ensure that such failings will not occur in the future.”
Boockvar, who was appointed to the $145,244-a-year position in 2019, declined to comment.
Jennifer Storm, the state’s onetime victim advocate who championed the two-year window alongside survivors, called the mistake “devastating.”
“To now say that this is going to get pushed back to 2023 is so offensive ... to survivors, who have waited long enough for this change,” Storm said.
State Attorney General Josh Shapiro, whose office ran the grand jury that produced the 2018 report, had harsh words for the agency. “The Department of State’s failure to carry out its responsibilities in the constitutional amendment process is shameful, and all options must be on the table to fix this immediately,” Shapiro said in a tweet.
Under state law, changes to the Pennsylvania Constitution require that a proposal be approved by the legislature in two consecutive sessions. At that point, the proposed change appears on the ballot for voters to decide.
The two-year window in the statute of limitations was first approved in the legislature’s 2019-20 session. It was just approved again last month by the House of Representatives and is expected to soon pass the Senate. The goal was to place the question on the spring primary ballot.
Before the question can appear on the ballot, however, Boockvar’s agency is required to advertise the change both times it is approved. Agency officials discovered last week that the Department of State, which oversees elections, did not advertise the proposed ballot question when it was approved in the 2019-20 session.
That means the process has to begin anew, with the legislature approving in the current, 2021-22 session, and again in the 2023-24 session.
Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar
Of course this has NOTHING to do with November's Presidential Election fraud! /S
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“ Of course this has NOTHING to do with November’s Presidential Election fraud! /S ”
Nooooo
I didn’t know that Tiny Tim was still alive.
Tiptoe through the tulips.....
Kathy looks a little like “Rachel” Levine.
Is there ANY law in Pennsylvania?
Oh absolutely not...
I would tweek the question a bit to say:
"Is there ANY law in Pennsylvania that applies to democrats?"
Imagine that from the “Code Purple” freaking dyke who is an enabler of sexual perverts and paedophiles who empower her to violate the State Constitution and the US Constitution, with impunity.
She needs to be hauled out on a RAIL.
Look at the lunacy, and duplicated and covered by an equally pervo dyke of an Atty General-— a real “It’s Pat” multi alphabet whack job. All working together to implant their machinery.
Sure. But it only applies to Conservatives. There is no law if you’re a democrat.
““This change at the Department of State has nothing to do with the administration of the 2020 election, which was fair and accurate,” Wolf said.”
This was no accident. Probably paid to do the poops. Happened in our town something similar. Except clerk got suspended for 30 days then got a 45k raise for leaving an item off ballot.
She can turn in her resignation letter down @ Gitmo !
Easily the most direct clash in the US of Trump versus the Deep State, between the Patriots of Pennsyltucky versus the elites of Philly's Green Line, and their apparatchiks and mutts in the metro.
Tiny Tim could play the ukulele and sing. This jagoff is merely a Soros stooge. This is good timing to clear her out because she wouldn’t win re-election next year even with the voter fraud she pulled off.
Mission Accomplished for Boockvar. Moving on to other things now.
Apparently she knows nothing about laws vs. constitutional amendments, and how constitutional amendments are ratified. The entire election was ran partly according to an unconstitutional law.
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