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.
What are the illegal ballots?
..unregistered voters actually voting
..voters casting other registered voters ballots
..Multiple ballots by one person
How many ballots are we talking about here? I see 124 mentioned in the article, which sounds trifling, but then it goes on to say that Philadelphia officials also agreed to count a “relatively small number” of ballots that were undated or wrongly dated. It would have been nice (and less suspicious) if these officials had at least given a ballpark figure instead of “relatively small” which could mean anything from a couple dozen to a couple thousand or even more.
Disband the Democrat party. They are just an enemy from within.
Yep, it’s disgusting and, as you say, we can hope this is the tipping point.
imgdrop.io, there’s no metadata, they don’t permit it. Running sophos and Kaspersky and not seeing a thing. Using tracer tools, I see no upstream activity.
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This meets the definitions of cheating and fraud.
Ignore them. File lawsuits.
Tell Shapiro he’ll be charged too.
Do it anyway. Payback is hell.
It sure is tempting I’ll admit, but let’s wait until they actually break the law and that becomes the trigger. 🙂👍
They just did.
Did it make a difference? Decision Desk still has Dave McCormick as winning, but then the trigger has been met. Trigger the arrest warrants. 🙂👍
They get what they want either way. If the votes are allowed, they have broken the law and gotten away with it. If the totals are deemed spoliated and removed, they been done disenfranchemised.
It’s like a toddler throwing vegetables on the floor until you either give them dessert or send them to bed where they howl for an hour or two. But they didn’t eat their vegetables.
Okay. You got me with that one. Is that good or Democrat?
It means they’re a victim class and therefore virtuous.
OK. Then tell them to stop wearing their sister’s underwear and we can pitch against the neighbor’s cement front doorstep for bragging rights.
I think it should be a capitol crime.
Allowing criminals to control the state can result in millions dead.
How many died due to COVID shots? Military campaigns?
Government is an extremely deadly instrument. Stealing it and using it against people should be dealt with extremely severely.
Will they keep those illegal ballots separate or will they mix them with the majority of the ballots so fast that they can’t be separated? If the latter and the whole thing is taken to the courts, the two who voted for counting them should be charged with a criminal offense. I won’t hold my breath, however.
I think they’re ballots missing a date or with a date past the deadline so it would be pretty easy to pick them out later.
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