Posted on 11/14/2024 7:23:35 PM PST by grundle
Bucks County commissioners voted to count ballots lacking proper signatures, violating a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.
The three-member board voted two to one to count these illegal ballots in the Senate race recount.
“I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want,” Diane Marseglia said. “So for me, if I violate this law, it's because I want a court to pay attention to it.”
Board chairman Robert Harviie, Jr., joined Marseglia in voting to accept the ballots that voters signed in one section but not another. Democrats challenged the decision not to count the ballots, placing the blame for the mistake on poll workers who did not double-check the provisional ballots before accepting them.
The board's legal team suggested the commissioners reject the ballots because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had given clear guidance about signatures being required for votes to count.
There were approximately 124 ballots that would not count because of missing signatures.
Republican Sen.-elect David McCormick won 48.93% of the vote and Democratic incumbent Bob Casey captured 48.50% of the vote, thus triggering a recount.
However, as of Wednesday, there are approximately 80,000 left to be counted, including 20,000 mail-in and absentee ballots and around 60,000 provisional ballots.
Counties must begin their recount on Nov. 20 and have until Nov. 27 to report their results to the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Casey, the third-term Senator, has not yet conceded the race.
Philadelphia City Commissioners also voted to count a "relatively small number of undated and incorrectly dated mail ballots."
"Republicans filed a petition to the PA Supreme Court against all counties to attempt to stop all counties from counting these ballots," Philadelphia City Commissioners said in a statement to Fox News. "They also filed a statutory appeal challenging Bucks County’s decision to count undated and incorrectly dated mail ballots. We are reviewing the filings."
An RNC official told Fox News that the decisions made by the county election boards were “ridiculous.” The GOP has filed two lawsuits against Bucks County and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to stop the counting of these ballots.
"The court just ruled on this two weeks ago,” an RNC official said. “And it's just very clear to us that Democrat lawyers and officials see a way to kind of make money off of Bob Casey by trying out this process, but Dave McCormick is already in D.C. to attend Senate orientation."
Republicans hold the majority in the Senate by 52-47 without including Sen.-elect McCormick’s seat.
Never mind, I see my answer to that is in the article.
Mark
Democrats are EVIL VOTE FRAUDSTERS and they do it RIGHT IN OUR FACE! THIRD WORLD CRAP!
Fraud. Republicans can’t stand for this crap.
People who do this should be prosecuted and jailed mandatory 10 year
Jail? How about public hanging? Sends a stronger message to others wanting to steal an election.
If Casey gets away with this, he should be George Santosed out of the Senate.
POS John Roberts doesn’t give a damn about the Constitutional requirements for Federal elections.
Well that’s just it. The Bucks county board members don’t fear any repercussions for defying the court. SCOTUS should have held Biden in contempt for defying its student loan forgiveness ruling. That would have been an example for the courts.
Since they have announced their intent to break the law and defy the courts, they CAN be arrested for conspiracy..though the current DC crowd won’t touch them!
Here, as in 2020, we have local commissions overriding the Constitutional prerogative of the State’s Legislature.
In a Republican Form of government, the Legislature is the voice of the people.
Yet, there are no indications from the Legislature (people) that they have been harmed (they have) and, by representative extension, have harmed ALL the people of Pennsylvania.
NOT ONE of these legal beagles are representing the Legislature (they need to hire a Constitutional lawyer) and/or the good people of Pennsylvania need to file an Amicus brief in the actions described.
bucks county apparatchiks wave the middle finger salute at Penn citizens, lege & PA supremes
so...........who’s gonna stop it?
somebody needs to go to the gulag
Hey, StAnDeliver
My AVG stopped a phishing attempt embedded (meta data) in your image in post #53.
You might want to have the Mod take it down.
The rats stole the AZ, NV, WI & MI Senate seats and God knows how many House seats. As far as I can see nothing is going to be done about it. Buck county shows how untouchable they believe they are. We can only hope that is the tipping point. Imagine having a public vote to accept illegal votes in defiance of the state SC.
How is Lara going to stop it once the illegal ballots have been merged in?
ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL.
ILLEGAL !!!
SUE THEM,
SUE THEM
FIGHT,FIGHT,FIGHT !!!!!
Start arresting some people......
I looked it up.
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