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Pennsylvania Court Says Images of Absentee, Mail-in Ballots Are Public Records
Democracy Docket ^ | July 31, 2024 | Crystal Hill

Posted on 08/01/2024 1:07:51 PM PDT by House Atreides

A Pennsylvania appeals court today ruled that images of completed absentee and mail-in ballots are public records under state election law, after a voter sought such records from the 2020 election.

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania says a lower court erred in holding that images of absentee and mail-in ballots were shielded from public disclosure under Section 308 of the Election Code, which says certain election materials are available to the public “except the contents of ballot boxes and voting machines and records of assisted voters …”

In its opinion, the court said the Common Pleas court failed to recognize that other provisions in the state’s election code “designate images of absentee and mail-in ballots as public records.”

Additionally, digital “images of cast absentee and mail-in ballots cannot be considered the contents of voting machines,” the court said. This doesn’t apply to completed in-person ballots.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: pennsylvania; votefraud
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This will give us a VERY good new tool to help insure integrity in Pennsylvania voting. Many of us are convinced that much fraud has been perpetrated in Pennsylvania using absentee and mail-in ballots.

This ruling will allow public access to an electronic copy of the images of all mail-in ballots and an electronic copy of the images of the outer envelopes. This is HUGE and the VOTE-FRAUD DemocRATS must be crying.

1 posted on 08/01/2024 1:07:51 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: lightman

FYI


2 posted on 08/01/2024 1:10:07 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides

How do I find out how many of my dead relatives voted?


3 posted on 08/01/2024 1:11:28 PM PDT by IC Ken (If the government can just print Money why do I have to pay taxes?)
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To: IC Ken

My brother moved to Ohio from Texas about 5 years ago. Texas counties have a voter lookup feature. I looked up his name 3 years after he moved, and he was still registered to vote in Texas.

I’m not sure what action should trigger removal from a voter roll, but residents are under no apparent obligation to tell the state, “hey, I’m not here anymore.”

It’s a serious exposure.


4 posted on 08/01/2024 1:17:01 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: House Atreides

PA is run by corrupt dems. They will most likely quickly change the law to cover up the fraud.


5 posted on 08/01/2024 1:17:25 PM PDT by Revel
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To: IC Ken

try the app.

did my dead relatives vote dem, again.


6 posted on 08/01/2024 1:17:47 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: IC Ken

Well, if they are dead, still on the Pennsylvania registered voter rolls and somebody voted for them using mail-in ballots… the envelope (containing voter identification information) that contained the ballot will be included on the electronic image provided. I’m sure that vote integrity groups (True the Vote, etc) will be doing a lot of cross checking against other files.


7 posted on 08/01/2024 1:18:16 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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Great news.


8 posted on 08/01/2024 1:18:50 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (No weapon formed against me shall prosper! (Isaiah 54:17))
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To: fwdude
I’m not sure what action should trigger removal from a voter roll, but residents are under no apparent obligation to tell the state, “hey, I’m not here anymore.”

If you ever carried ballot petitions you could bet that you would knock on doors where the person listed had died, it's embarrassing. But it always happens so you know there are hundreds if not more in each district.

9 posted on 08/01/2024 1:18:59 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Revel

PA is run by corrupt dems. They will most likely quickly change the law to cover up the fraud.


The FOIA requests will be expedited and you’ll get to see what you asked for in 5 years.


10 posted on 08/01/2024 1:21:17 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: House Atreides

Shapiro, the king of voter fraud will not be happy.


11 posted on 08/01/2024 1:23:30 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: House Atreides
This will give us a VERY good new tool to help insure integrity in Pennsylvania voting. Many of us are convinced that much fraud has been perpetrated in Pennsylvania using absentee and mail-in ballots.

Call me a sceptic because the Republican majority PA State Legislature could have exercised their constitutional powers to put a stop to all the 2020 shenanigans but they did nothing.

12 posted on 08/01/2024 1:25:58 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Revel

“PA is run by corrupt dems. They will most likely quickly change the law to cover up the fraud.”

That’s true, but the legislature may not need to do anything. If/when this is appealed to the Pennsylvania Democrat Supreme Court, we already know what the outcome will be.

The Dems are very close to having full control of PA state government. Thanks to the Democrats gerrymandering the districts, they may be able to flip 3 senate seats in November — exactly the amount they need to take over — and then would control everything. With so many RINO’s in the PA legislature, they pretty much already do have control, but this would be the final nail in the coffin.

Also, when Joshie Shapiwo becomes the VP candidate and then the unthinkable (but hardly improbable) happens in November, those of us here in the People’s Republic of PA will have a totally unqualified incompetent monkey as our new Governor. And wait until you how orgasmic the media gets when THAT happens.

The last decent person to leave PA should remember to turn out the lights.


13 posted on 08/01/2024 1:31:28 PM PDT by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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To: fwdude

When my parents moved to Florida, they still had them on the rolls in Memphis 10 years later. I saw their names when I was early voting, and let them know then. I had to sign a form for them to drop them from the rolls.


14 posted on 08/01/2024 1:33:54 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: House Atreides

sunlight = disinfectant


15 posted on 08/01/2024 1:35:00 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: House Atreides
This is great news. There is no reason, other than to facilitate fraud, for every voted ballot to not be available for public scrutiny.

Of course, now that the electronic images must be made public, don’t be surprised if they suddenly experience “unexpected” data loss.

16 posted on 08/01/2024 1:35:28 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: IC Ken

All is the correct answer………D


17 posted on 08/01/2024 1:45:40 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: noiseman

“ Of course, now that the electronic images must be made public, don’t be surprised if they suddenly experience “unexpected” data loss.”
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It wouldn’t surprise me. Since these images would ALL be on one set of records it should be cheap to just make a copy of the whole file. No search fees, etc.


18 posted on 08/01/2024 1:51:40 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: IC Ken

And why can’t I have a copy of my votes?


19 posted on 08/01/2024 1:57:56 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: fso301

Would a National vs State ID give better leverage to control voters fraud from remaining on voters rollscin a state after moving out? Is there no solution to this?


20 posted on 08/01/2024 2:00:34 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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