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Here We Go: Trump Campaign Slaps PA Officials with Ballot-Related Lawsuit
Townhall ^ | November 09, 2020 | Beth Baumann | @eb454

Posted on 11/10/2020 6:42:53 AM PST by conservative98

The Trump campaign on Monday filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and Elections officials in Allegheny, Centre, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Northampton Counties. The lawsuit is taking place in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and alleges a "two-tiered" voting system for the 2020 presidential election. According to the campaign, voters were held to different standards depending on if they decided to vote in-person or by mail.

Those who chose to vote in-person at the polls had to register to vote, have their signature compared to voter rolls, vote in a monitored polling place where authorized poll observers took place, and their votes were counted in a transparent and observed manner.

According to the campaign, the state's roughly 2.65 million mail-in ballots "lacked all the hallmarks of transparency and verifiability" that in-person voters faced. In particular, Trump's team took issue with the lack of voter identification and ballots being received up to three days after Election Day. Those ballots were allegedly counted "without any evidence of timely mailings, such as a postmark, and denying sufficient monitoring over the reviewing and counting of mail-in ballots."

The lawsuit specifically calls out Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties for not "engaging in an open and transparent process to give credibility to Pennsylvania’s brand-new voting system, the processes were hidden during the receipt, review, opening, and tabulation" of 682,479 votes.

The Trump campaign's lawsuit accuses election officials in Allegheny and Pennsylvania Counties – two Democratic strongholds – of pre-canvassing ahead of Election Day, meaning they contacted voters for things like missing signatures. The ballots were allegedly allowed to be cured by voting provisionally on Election Day or canceling a previously mailed out ballot for a new one, despite state election rules not allowing ballot curing to take place.

"In other words, those counties provided their mail-in voters with the opportunity to cure mail-in and absentee ballot deficiencies, while Republican-heavy counties followed the law and did not provide a notice and cure process, disenfranchising those that themselves complied with the Election Code to case legal votes," the lawsuit read.

Election officials are also accused of "mailing unsolicited mail-in ballots to voters despite the fact that they had not applied for a mail-in ballot for the General Election, thus resulting in voters who received two ballots. The offending counties also failed to undertake any effort to ensure destruction of the duplicate ballots."

The other issue called into question whether or not ballots were received by the deadline because some ballots were allegedly "counted without any evidence of timely mailing, such as a postmark."

The Trump campaign believes these alleged actions violate the Equal Protection Clause and Elections and Electors Clause. They are asking for an injunction that would require the defendants to verify and confirm all mail-in ballots that were counted.


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1 posted on 11/10/2020 6:42:53 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98
Obamajudge Matthew W. Brann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_W._Brann

2 posted on 11/10/2020 6:45:37 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: conservative98

Nullify all elections and have a do-over.


3 posted on 11/10/2020 6:45:47 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: conservative98
#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service	Appointed by
Active	Chief	Senior
21	Chief Judge	John E. Jones III	Harrisburg	1955	2002–present	2020–present	—	G.W. Bush
20	District Judge	Christopher C. Conner	Harrisburg	1957	2002–present	2013–2020	—	G.W. Bush
22	District Judge	Robert D. Mariani	Scranton	1950	2011–present	—	—	Obama
23	District Judge	Malachy E. Mannion	Scranton	1953	2012–present	—	—	Obama
24	District Judge	Matthew W. Brann	Williamsport	1965	2012–present	—	—	Obama
25	District Judge	Jennifer P. Wilson	Harrisburg	1975	2019–present	—	—	Trump
12	Senior Judge	Sylvia H. Rambo	Harrisburg	1936	1979–2001	1992–1999	2001–present	Carter
18	Senior Judge	Yvette Kane	Harrisburg	1953	1998–2018	2006–2013	2018–present	Clinton

4 posted on 11/10/2020 6:46:31 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: conservative98

Excellent.
The fun has only just began.


5 posted on 11/10/2020 6:46:36 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: conservative98

One state down and 5 to go! “GO TRUMP” We love you Mr. President .Never give up or give in. They are trying to steal it and EVERYONE KNOWS IT! OUR COUNTRY STANDS IN THE BALANCE.


6 posted on 11/10/2020 6:47:24 AM PST by spincaster (hat)
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To: conservative98

For me, I really need to see the big blocks of computer votes that were swapped multiple times in multiple states seriously brought forward and dealt with.

A recount will not help this. A re-vote with systems that can and are tampered with will not help. I believe in Michigan, over 2.9% of the votes for our President were deleted and moved to Biden electronically based on reports I have read.


7 posted on 11/10/2020 6:49:49 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: kiryandil

Trump loses with that selection of Judges...


8 posted on 11/10/2020 6:50:30 AM PST by RBW in PA
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To: conservative98

9 posted on 11/10/2020 6:50:40 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RBW in PA

On and up to SCOTUS.


10 posted on 11/10/2020 6:50:54 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kiryandil

Most Democrats know that massive election fraud has taken place, yet they’re fine with it.

How long can our constitutional republic survive that pervasive mind-set ?


11 posted on 11/10/2020 6:51:29 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: RBW in PA

The suit was filed in Williamsport - that’s Obamajudge Matt Brann.


12 posted on 11/10/2020 6:52:16 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: conservative98

Hopefully the District Court will issue a ruling soon and, assuming they will deny the request, the suit goes on to Circuit Court. Then perhaps the Supreme Court.


13 posted on 11/10/2020 6:53:08 AM PST by be-baw
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To: kiryandil

Third Circuit then SCOTUS.
The District Court is not going to decide sh*t.


14 posted on 11/10/2020 6:53:25 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: BrexitBen

Nazis aren’t into constitutional republics...


15 posted on 11/10/2020 6:53:28 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: conservative98

Extraordinary the number of hoops that need to be jumped just to get a validation of votes/ballots, as if there’s a presumption of validity. Presumption of fraud and error makes much more sense, and election systems should have evidence of validity as a matter of course.


16 posted on 11/10/2020 6:53:30 AM PST by MikeyB806
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To: conservative98

682,479 compromised votes.

...and the folks of Philadelphia need to understand that it was the DEMOCRAT election workers that did that with hundreds of thousands of THEIR votes. It wasn’t Republicans who mis-handled their votes. It was all Democrats.


17 posted on 11/10/2020 6:53:55 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: kiryandil

just a formality, because the goal is to get it to the SCOTUS, and sending to an Obama judge is the quickest way to get it there.


18 posted on 11/10/2020 6:55:12 AM PST by j_guru
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To: conservative98
These states are going to see lawsuits coming at them from all directions

Cloward-Piven turns the tables...

19 posted on 11/10/2020 6:57:18 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Potemkin Joe - Everything about him is fake)
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To: be-baw; SmokingJoe
Third Circuit - looks like we're 8 to 6, including the chief judge...

	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service	Appointed by
Active	Chief	Senior
56	Chief Judge	D. Brooks Smith	Duncansville, PA	1951	2002–present	2016–present	—	G.W. Bush
50	Circuit Judge	Theodore McKee	Philadelphia, PA	1947	1994–present	2010–2016	—	Clinton
54	Circuit Judge	Thomas L. Ambro	Wilmington, DE	1949	2000–present	—	—	Clinton
60	Circuit Judge	Michael Chagares	Newark, NJ	1962	2006–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
61	Circuit Judge	Kent A. Jordan	Wilmington, DE	1957	2006–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
62	Circuit Judge	Thomas Hardiman	Pittsburgh, PA	1965	2007–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
63	Circuit Judge	Joseph A. Greenaway Jr.	Newark, NJ	1957	2010–present	—	—	Obama
65	Circuit Judge	Patty Shwartz	Newark, NJ	1961	2013–present	—	—	Obama
66	Circuit Judge	Cheryl Ann Krause	Philadelphia, PA	1968	2014–present	—	—	Obama
67	Circuit Judge	Luis Felipe Restrepo	Philadelphia, PA	1959	2016–present	—	—	Obama
68	Circuit Judge	Stephanos Bibas	Philadelphia, PA	1969	2017–present	—	—	Trump
69	Circuit Judge	David J. Porter	Pittsburgh, PA	1966	2018–present	—	—	Trump
70	Circuit Judge	Paul Matey	Newark, NJ	1971	2019–present	—	—	Trump
71	Circuit Judge	Peter J. Phipps	Pittsburgh, PA	1973	2019–present	—	—	Trump

20 posted on 11/10/2020 6:58:22 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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