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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.”
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bananapennsylvania; bloggers; dirtypasupremes; dirtypennsylvania; dirtypennsyvania; election2020; electionfraud; joebiden; mailinballots; paping; pasupremecourt; pasupremesonarope; pennsylvania; signature; supremecourt; trump; voterfraud
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To: SeekAndFind
Expected to win zilch in PA courts because of them. Goal had to be lose fast and appeal onwards.
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posted on
11/23/2020 6:39:27 PM PST
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Dewey eyed Joe lost)
To: SeekAndFind
Expected to win zilch in PA courts because of them. Goal had to be lose fast and appeal onwards.
62
posted on
11/23/2020 6:40:08 PM PST
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Dewey eyed Joe lost)
To: CivilWarBrewing
Max Baer - DemonRATJethro Bodine? No wonder
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posted on
11/23/2020 6:41:56 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
To: truthkeeper
Don’t think That was one step FL supreme idiots to SCOTUS .
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posted on
11/23/2020 6:43:51 PM PST
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Dewey eyed Joe lost)
To: BigEdLB
THIS is the story all the naysayers should be watching....
Trump will be sworn in on January 20th for his 2nd term.
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posted on
11/23/2020 6:46:58 PM PST
by
Bshaw
(A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
To: JoSixChip
“This is a state court, why would it go to the SCOTUS? “
You would do well to familiarize yourself with the particulars of Bush V Gore.
Same antics going on with the FL Supreme Court that you see here!
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posted on
11/23/2020 6:48:46 PM PST
by
Bshaw
(A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
To: Bshaw
Hey I still have a ballot for pa. I guess I can send it. F’ing idiots.
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posted on
11/23/2020 6:50:32 PM PST
by
rlbedfor
To: SeekAndFind
This is nothing new. They did this before the election also at Wolf’s request, but in doing so, they violated the separation of powers (this is solely a legislative power). This is setting up nicely for a SCOTUS case. The PA Supreme Court is 5-2 Democrat and is the most corrupt in the nation.
To: Huskrrrr
In Pennsylvania, basically - you can have your dog cr@p on a mail-in ballot, and if it ends up accidentally getting marked for Joek and The Hoe, IT'S ALL GOOD.
Banana Pennsylvania.
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posted on
11/23/2020 6:59:57 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
To: JoSixChip
On December 8, 2000, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the statewide counting of undervotes. Bush’s legal team went straight to the U.S. Supreme Court.
To: Lurking Libertarian
SCOTUS is not going to hear a case about 8,000 ballots in Pennsylvania-- it won't change the outcome in that state, much less in the total EC votes.
Bullshit!
This will probably be wrapped up in another case, either way, this effort, by the Trump Team, to get justice where Voting Fraud is concerned will end up in front of the Supreme Court, and you know it.
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posted on
11/23/2020 7:05:22 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: Lurking Libertarian
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posted on
11/23/2020 7:14:33 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
To: Howie66
“ Traitorous Tyrants in Black Robes. We do know who these people are, right?”
Is doxing only for the left?
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posted on
11/23/2020 7:24:30 PM PST
by
jdsteel
(Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
To: Lurking Libertarian
said,
"SCOTUS is not going to hear a case about 8,000 ballots in Pennsylvania-- it won't change the outcome in that state, much less in the total EC votes" I'm afraid you're right. Why did they set this up with 8,000 votes?
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posted on
11/23/2020 7:27:37 PM PST
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: shaven_llama
”But you really think judges won’t happily smack down Republicans for trying the same shit?” Would they risk bringing attention to leftist vote fraud by trying to persecute conservatives for doing the same? I don’t know. Maybe that’s a potential strategy: If politicians and the legal system insist upon turning a blind eye to democrat vote fraud, then we crank the fraud up to 11 until they’re forced to do something about it, inadvertently slamming the door on dem fraud in the process.
Sounds crazy to have to say something like that (because it is), but we’re living in a post-constitutional, post-rule of law country now. All that is left is the law of the jungle.
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posted on
11/23/2020 7:28:39 PM PST
by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
To: BigEdLB
said, "Try 800,000 not 8,000"
Thank you for the correction. yes they will have to rule on it
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posted on
11/23/2020 7:28:54 PM PST
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
To: rlbedfor
”Hey I still have a ballot for pa. I guess I can send it. F’ing idiots.” If you have a copier you can send in as many as you want. That’s how our country works now.
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posted on
11/23/2020 7:33:46 PM PST
by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
To: BigEdLB
Try 800,000 not 8,000 From the original article: "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."
An appellate court can't give you more than you asked for in the lower court. So a reversal on appeal would change, at most, 8,320 votes.
To: JoSixChip
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. Because it is a constitutional issue, which makes it a Federal issue, which means it lands in Federal Court if Team Trump asks for it, and they will.
It can also be pushed to a Federal Court because the litigants reside in different states.
Controversies Between Citizens of Different States
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posted on
11/23/2020 8:26:13 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: noiseman
We need to prepare to risk everything to defeat these socialist/Marxist scum- just like our ancestors during the first revolution.
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posted on
11/23/2020 9:35:08 PM PST
by
ohioman
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