Posted on 09/17/2020 1:43:32 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court gave the Democratic Party a series of victories Thursday, including one allowing repairs to glitches and gray areas in the battleground state’s fledgling mail-in voting law and another that kicked the Green Party’s presidential candidate off the November ballot.
The state Supreme Court, which has a 5-2 Democratic majority, granted the Democratic Party’s request to order a three-day extension of Pennsylvania’s Election Day deadline to count mailed-in ballots.
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“PA and MI is gone. WI become the roadblock. Not getting a warm fuzzy from that.”
I was here in 2016 and saw the same sentiment expressed from a lot of “freepers” although not for this particular reason. I visit many political websites and I have to say this one has by far the largest % of nervous Nellie, pearl clutching, gloom and doom defeatists of any of them by far.
USSC can fast track a case as they did in 2000 during the Bush/Gore fiasco.
They would easily expedite the case.
and they are loathe to get involved in state election laws anyway.
It's a federal office.
Regardless, if their is an aspect of any election that might be unconstitutional, of course they would get involved.
THERE IS NO LAW
“fledgling mail-in voting law”
Keeping the Green Party off the ballot is a Democrat Party cheat. They did it in WI as well as PA. The Greens if on the ballot could suck up a percent or two that otherwise will go to the Democrats.
Trump isn’t God. There’s only so much that can be overcome. There’s no contingency plan that can negate this transparent partisan scale-tipping.
‘Trump beat the Hildabeast by ~44,000 votes, so he starts at close to a 6,000 vote deficit out of the gate...’
Trump lost a lot of votes to Johnson in 2016; those voters who are still able to vote have no libertarian alternative this time, so Trump has a resource there...we’ll see...
Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President [emphasis added], and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; […]"
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket for 2020 elections.
Insights welcome.
Our only kid voted for Johnson in 2016. I get it - I was in college in 1980 and couldn't pull the trigger for Reagan, but I sure as hell wasn't voting for Carter. After four years of work and the politics involved at work, our kid will be voting for Trump this time.
You’d have made a great social director on the Titanic./s
So it’s now November 6th. Suddenly dozens of SUVs pull up at all the PA polling places.
“Look what we found! Thousands of uncounted unpostmarked ballots!”
Am I a pearl clutcher? If SCOTUS doesn’t intervene as in 2000, our cause is toast and so is America.
So, BLOAT!
I just posted something similar in post #29. Glad to see someone else thought of it.
“They would easily expedite the case.”
They *could* easily expedite. I doubt they would.
“It’s a federal office.”
A federal office, sure, but it’s a state election, governed by state election laws, and the Constitution explicitly gives almost unlimited latitude to the states to determine how they select electors, to the point where states are not even required to hold an election at all. They could throw darts at a dartboard, or paint the candidate’s names on horses and determine it with a horserace, and it would still be perfectly legally valid from a federal perspective. So it’s not likely the Supreme Court will want to get involved, unless there is some violation of civil rights happening.
“if their is an aspect of any election that might be unconstitutional”
Yes, but because of the specific constitutional delegation of this stuff to the states, with as much leeway as they are given, there is very little grounds for anything in a case like this to be argued to be “unconstitutional”. Basically the state has to violate the 14th or 15th amendments or something like that before the SC is going to want to touch it.
The Supreme Court only harasses those southern states
when it comes to their state election laws.
By the way, ever since the Unibomber and also the anthrax attack that killed several postal workers, the Post Office PHOTOGRAPHS every piece of mail going through their system. If there is no photograph, it never went through the system.
how’s this looking LS?
‘Glad to see someone else thought of it.’
‘cept I forgot about Jo Jorgensen; she’s running for the libertarians...
Because it’s a state election?
Do you get your ballot from the federal government, or from the state that you live in? Who do you submit the ballot to? Who counts it? Whose laws determine how the ballot is printed? Etc, etc...
I doubt those Stein votes will vote for Biden, they may even vote for Trump since it was the Democrats who removed their Party.
Agreed. They think that we don’t have any ability to counter what the Democrats are doing. I believe the margin of the win will be so great the Democrats won’t be able to steal it.
They can, and they might, but I doubt they will in a case like this. They did with Gore/Bush because it threatened to create a constitutional crisis if they didn’t. I can’t see how a case like this rises to that level.
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