Posted on 10/13/2022 6:37:23 AM PDT by devane617
Pennsylvania's top-ranking state elections official said Tuesday a new U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding how rules for the state's mail-in ballots had been applied in a county judge election doesn't change her agency's guidance about counting them.
Acting Secretary of State Leigh M. Chapman said county elections officials should count mail-in votes that arrive in exterior envelopes with inaccurate or nonexistent handwritten dates, despite a requirement in state law.The U.S. Supreme Court earlier Tuesday had declared as moot a decision in May by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that had said mail-in ballots without a required date on the return envelope had to be counted in a 2021 Pennsylvania judge race.
Chapman issued a statement saying the high court decision did not affect a separate, previous ruling by state Commonwealth Court in favor of counting ballots without properly dated exterior envelopes.
The new decision, Chapman said, "provides no justification for counties to exclude ballots based on a minor omission, and we expect that counties will continue to comply with their obligation to count all legal votes." Chapman works in the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat.
The Third Circuit had said state election law's requirement of a date next to the voter's signature on the outside of return envelopes was "immaterial." That lower court had said it found no reason to refuse counting the ballots that were set aside in the Nov. 2, 2021, election for common pleas judge in Lehigh County.
Those votes were enough to propel the Democrat, Zac Cohen, to victory in the race. He has since been sworn in and the new U.S. Supreme Court decision is not expected to reverse the results of Cohen's election contest.
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Wasn’t it Andrew Jackson who told a justice to, in so many words, F.off?
when do the lawsuits get filed???
Full-blown fraud in motion. The Deep State- Globalist Cabal has no intent to be voted out of office.
Like her boss and other Demonicrats, Acting Secretary of State Leigh M. Chapman considers herself to be above the SCOTUS, the law, and the Constitution when it doesn’t suit their desires.
It’s the Dems who want to ignore SCOTUS. Back to the courts we go.
They’re going to cheat until someone stops them. That’s all there is to it.
What happens if a gov entity—city, county or state—decides to is ply ignore the SCOTUS?
You’d think the election would be invalidated.
Not only are these ballots undated, but they’re (mostly or totally) unsolicited as well. It’s a sure fire recipe for fraud, e.g. for coming up with votes AFTER election day IOT swing the result of the election.
So Pennsylvania’s elections are in a state of anarchy. They are just disregarding a ruling by the highest court in the land. Where does it stop and how do the people fight back if their only means of protest (The Vote) is controlled by the ruling party.
After dismissing all the 2020 election claims at the time, now SCOTUS gets to feel what it’s like to be declared moot.
I despise this flippant ignoring decision.
OTOH, who can guarantee a date isn’t a lie?
Actually, another reason to abolish this asinine banana-republic practice.
The justices (?) stand there completely naked, without
robes to hide their yenyangs; not to mention their redasses.
Oust these tyrannical cheaten picks off their cushy chairs
annd place them behind bars. Give these jerks a spoonful
of their own medicine.
Jackson allegedly said, “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” Although this statement, which has been repeatedly attributed to Jackson, is likely apocryphal, neither Jackson nor the state of Georgia enforced the ruling. Whether Jackson uttered the famous phrase or not, both Jackson’s contemporary critics and modern historians, such as Daniel Walker Howe, who have studied his presidency have depicted him as a powerful executive who pushed the constitutional boundaries of presidential power.
Without vote fraud the Communist Party would be over.
Yes.
“How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?” unknown.
Bet chief just-us Roberts winked.
Making it harder to cheat. Somewhere, Fetterman’s interface computer is telling him to weep.
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