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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Mail-In/Absentee Ballots with No Dates or Handwritten Name/Address Can be Counted!
Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/23/2020 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 11/23/2020 5:24:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court has once again shown its contempt for a free and fair election.

The PA Supreme Court on Monday ruled that mail-in/ballots with no dates or handwritten names/addresses on the outer envelopes can be counted.

The Trump campaign challenged the decision of the Philadelphia County Board of Elections to count 8,320 mail-in/absentee ballots arguing the voters failed to handwrite their name, address or the date (in some cases a combination of all three) on the outer envelope.

Trump’s legal team argued that the General Assembly set forth in the Election Code the requirements for how a qualified elector can cast a mail-in or absentee ballot.

A voter is required to “fill out, date, and sign” the declaration on the outside envelope the Trump campaign argued (citing 25 P.S. §§ 3146.6(a) and 3150.16(a)).

The Trump campaign argued that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the requirements of the sections of Election Code impose mandatory obligations that the ballots cast falling short of these requirements cannot be counted.

The Philadelphia Board actually argued that the Election Code set forth by the General Assembly does not require them to set aside “timely-filed ballots” for “merely missing handwritten names, street addresses, and/or dates on the signed voter declaration.”

Who cares about filling out the outer envelopes? We are a banana republic.

The Trump team argued that a Pennsylvania court already invalidated 2,349 absentee ballots in Allegheny County where the voter didn’t date their declaration.

Commonwealth Court Judge P. Kevin Brobson last Thursday reversed a lower court judge and directed the “Elections Board to exclude the challenged 2,349 ballots from the certified returns of election for the County of Allegheny.”

“…[There] is an obvious and salutary purpose behind the requirement that a voter date the declaration. The date provides a measure of security, establishing the date on which the elector actually executed the ballot in full, ensuring their desire to cast it in lieu of appearing in person at a polling place. The presence of the date also establishes a point in time against which to measure the elector’s eligibility to cast the ballot, as reflected in the body of the declaration itself,” the judge wrote.

Judge Brobson said the votes in question will not be counted “because the votes are invalid as a matter of law.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court shot down the Trump campaign’s argument and said voters failing to fill out their name/address and date on the envelope is just a “technical violation” of the Election Code and does not “warrant the wholesale disenfranchisement of thousands of Pennsylvania voters.”

“The decision of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas is hereby affirmed. The decision of the Commonwealth Court is hereby reversed and the decision of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas is reinstated.”

Incredible contempt for free and fair elections by the out of control PA Supreme Court. https://t.co/Rl0Y07Yha5

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 23, 2020



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
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1 posted on 11/23/2020 5:24:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Tyrants in black robes


2 posted on 11/23/2020 5:25:07 PM PST by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind

On to the U.S. Supreme Court we go!


3 posted on 11/23/2020 5:25:40 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SeekAndFind

We have reached third world status.


4 posted on 11/23/2020 5:26:02 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: BigEdLB

Traitorous Tyrants in Black Robes. We do know who these people are, right?


5 posted on 11/23/2020 5:26:12 PM PST by Howie66 ("Ghislane Maxwell Didn't Kill Herself" )
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s a good thing.


6 posted on 11/23/2020 5:26:14 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rules don’t apply when they dislike one candidate, how impartial of them.
Imagine if this had been ruled against obama and the count went against obama, the media would have been howling in rage.


7 posted on 11/23/2020 5:26:58 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Now to go Federal over equal protection and maybe separation of powers.


8 posted on 11/23/2020 5:27:28 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: SeekAndFind

This is an easy one.


9 posted on 11/23/2020 5:27:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Then it’s time for conservatives to fire up the printing presses and fight fire with fire. We need to get the dead to vote for our candidates before they vote for theirs, manufacture as many “votes” as we can, shred their votes, etc.

This is a war now, with no rules except to do whatever is necessary to seize power. That’s the game the left is playing, and they apparently are succeeding at it, so trying to beat them by obeying the rules is an obsolete concept.

10 posted on 11/23/2020 5:27:45 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: SeekAndFind

I believe the Supreme Court will fix this. Then, all the corrupt state leftist so-called Judges have to be dealt with. This is beyond “judicial temperament”. These pieces of human fecal matter have to be removed


11 posted on 11/23/2020 5:28:08 PM PST by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did they INTEND to create an obvious, indisputable Equal Protection violation?

In-person voting is subject to more stringent authentication.


12 posted on 11/23/2020 5:28:44 PM PST by Zeddicus
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes it is, because that is where the major decisions are going to be made.


13 posted on 11/23/2020 5:28:51 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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14 posted on 11/23/2020 5:28:58 PM PST by lizma2
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To: SeekAndFind

What do you expect?

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is 5 liberals versus 2 GOP.


15 posted on 11/23/2020 5:29:26 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump.....one of the BEST presidents in American history!)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

16 posted on 11/23/2020 5:29:29 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SoConPubbie
On to the U.S. Supreme Court we go!

This is a state court, why would it go to the SCOTUS? They might try a federal court, but I doubt they would take it up.
17 posted on 11/23/2020 5:30:00 PM PST by JoSixChip (Its not about color, its about character.)
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To: BigEdLB

Last stop before the bullet box.


18 posted on 11/23/2020 5:31:15 PM PST by calenel (Tree of Liberty is thirsty.)
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To: lightman

The PASC seems suicidal.


19 posted on 11/23/2020 5:32:19 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: BigEdLB

I hope they do because if they don’t, Trump’s signature accomplishment - appointing 3 “Constitutional Originalist” justices will have been a complete sham as well and the Republic will truly be dead.

I guess we’ll see if our Supreme Court really believes the oath they took when they were sworn in.


20 posted on 11/23/2020 5:32:49 PM PST by Zeddicus
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