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Justice Alito temporarily grants Pennsylvania GOP request to enforce segregation of late ballots
.washingtonpost.com ^ | 11/6/2020 | Elise Viebeck, Robert Barnes and Emma Brown

Posted on 11/06/2020 5:36:47 PM PST by bitt

The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers.

Legal jockeying in Pennsylvania intensified Friday as Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure county election officials were segregating mail ballots delivered after Election Day, the latest effort by the GOP to use the courts to intervene in the vote count as former vice president Joe Biden’s advantage grew.

On Friday evening, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who received the petition because he is the justice responsible for that region, approved the GOP request for now. He called for a response from state officials by Saturday afternoon.

Even if the high court were to ultimately side with Republicans, the impact would likely be muted: Pennsylvania officials said they are already setting aside the small number of mail ballots that have arrived since Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballots; justicealito; lateballots; pennsylvania; scotus
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To: Lockbox
What do you want to bet that PA says we cannot ID when ballots were received...........

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Sorry Charlie!! Election results null and void!! Re-do!

21 posted on 11/06/2020 5:53:20 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: lilypad

And video every single person and every move that’s made.


22 posted on 11/06/2020 5:53:30 PM PST by lilypad
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To: wiseprince

Trump should put up $1 million of his own money as a reward to any fraudster who wants to come forward and expose the fraud operation. I would say that he should also promise to pardon that person of any federal charges, but that would probably be considered selling a pardon, so just hang onto that and possibly pardon the person or persons later.


23 posted on 11/06/2020 5:54:27 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: bitt
small number of mail ballots that have arrived since Tuesday.

They're going to claim that all these batches of 50,000, 75,000, 30,000 ballots that they been finding every few hours for the last three days *all* arrived before Tuesday.

24 posted on 11/06/2020 5:55:06 PM PST by kevao (BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor. SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: guido911

mercy me!! Did I accidentally log onto DU??
Nonesense! That kind of comment doesn’t belong here and I will be the first to say it!!


25 posted on 11/06/2020 5:55:45 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: guido911

How is this a win? Is it just a small batch being pulled that won’t make a difference? I’m asking sincerely because no one is explaining what exactly can happen or be revealed


26 posted on 11/06/2020 5:57:06 PM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: dontreadthis

REALLY? What about potentially thousands of ballots BACKDATED by the USPS to November 3, that were received AFTER November 3?


27 posted on 11/06/2020 5:59:09 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: bitt

First shot of the civil war?


28 posted on 11/06/2020 6:03:52 PM PST by Hulka
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To: Safrguns

Ask them which ones came in at 4AM in the morning...we’d like to examine those.

oh you can’t? What time did they come in? We don’t know.


29 posted on 11/06/2020 6:05:01 PM PST by for-q-clinton
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To: Bigtigermike

“How is this a win? Is it just a small batch being pulled that won’t make a difference? I’m asking sincerely because no one is explaining what exactly can happen or be revealed”

I would think the burden would be on PA to show that they segregated the late arriving ballots properly so that they can be identified. If not, it might be ruled that the entire pool of ballots has been contaminated and disqualified. I doubt if the crooked PA officials would really want to hold a revote under court supervision.


30 posted on 11/06/2020 6:05:28 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Bigtigermike

This case is being litigated by skilled lawyers. For reasons their own their strategy was to obtain this sort of relief. If they had asked for it and it was denied, then it would be “bad news.”

My guess is that GOP wants to show the court that Pa. violated its own statute or that the governor modified the rules in violation of the U.S. constitution regarding which state branch of government can enact voting laws.

The GOP may also be looking to see how those ballots that came in after 8:00 were being handled, if stray marks were on them, etc.

These efforts are generally undertaken to get one’s “nose under the tent.”


31 posted on 11/06/2020 6:05:36 PM PST by guido911
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To: guido911

You again. You’re a jerk.


32 posted on 11/06/2020 6:14:11 PM PST by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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To: kevao
the small number of mail ballots that have arrived since Tuesday

WTF?

33 posted on 11/06/2020 6:16:32 PM PST by McGruff (It's not who votes that count, it's who counts the votes that matters.)
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To: McGruff

Yes, that’s what they’re claiming. That they have already set aside the “small number” of ballots they received after 8:00pm on Tuesday. LMAO!


34 posted on 11/06/2020 6:18:26 PM PST by kevao (BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor. SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: dontreadthis
>the impact would likely be muted

Not necessarily, cf. Alito's opinion the week before election denying expedited Cert (d/t 4:4 tie on that), but requiring sequestration on the late arrivals on the chance it would get non-expedited Cert post election. He reviewed the PA legislative history in writing the legislative deadline for ballot arrival PA Supremes revoked. He pointed out the legislature had demonstrated they didn't believe Covid—the excuse PA Supremes used—was adequate. The deadline for mail ballot arrival and the authorization for mass mail ballots were explicitly written as non-severable. SCOTUS could rule that PA Supremes in changing the deadline de-authorized the mass mail ballots and throw them ALL out! Maybe a long shot, but Thomas and Goresuch concurred in this. Add literalist ACB and its up to Kavanagh.

35 posted on 11/06/2020 6:21:26 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch.)
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To: CommieCutter

Maybe. But this “jerk” is currently working on behalf of several special interest groups trying to get access to voting documents to help cure the fraud. What are you doing?


36 posted on 11/06/2020 6:24:43 PM PST by guido911
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To: Lockbox

Since they are on video-— filling out ballots and stamping them with assumed “recieved” date stamp— don’t think so.

Lots of videos of pen to ballot and filling it out then stamping and putting in the pile to “count”. Fraud— no doubt about it.


37 posted on 11/06/2020 6:26:27 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: dontreadthis

Yeah— the small number that THEY say came in. But photo-videoed boxes wagoned into the building at 4 AM. 10s of thousands potentially... which came from where? Harvesters?
a Warhouse in S. PHilly? The tracking “watermarks” from the DHS Cyber Security partnership with the 3 or 4 major printers that produce federally acceptable ballots-— will come into play most certainly.


38 posted on 11/06/2020 6:28:46 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Bigtigermike

The WaPo states it is a “small number” -— that’s their opinion— they cannot know the facts. It is not a small number, and if they cannot validate the ballots-— next order is... invalidated, not to be counted.


39 posted on 11/06/2020 6:32:11 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

“The deadline for mail ballot arrival and the authorization for mass mail ballots were explicitly written as non-severable.”
Written by the PA legislature?
I was not aware that the PA legislature authorized mass mail-in ballots.
But your theory is very encouraging


40 posted on 11/06/2020 6:32:36 PM PST by dontreadthis
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