Good day all. There was a ruling on flawed mail in ballots in Pennsylvania. The case revolves around ballots that come in without the date being written on them. Apparently, a very close election last year was decided on a number of ballots that didn’t have the date on them.
The plaintiff, David Ritter, lost by 5 votes in 2021 after 257 ballots that didn’t have the required dates written them. He sued and the case has been moving up through the court system. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has to exclude the defective ballots. Pennsylvania has also said they are going to ignore the court. Here are some of the details from MSN:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with an unsuccessful Republican candidate for a judgeship in Pennsylvania and threw out a lower court’s ruling that had allowed the counting of mail-in ballots in the race that he had sought to exclude because voters neglected to write the date on them.
The justices vacated the ruling by the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as requested by David Ritter, who lost his 2021 bid for a spot on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas to a Democratic rival by five votes after 257 absentee ballots without date notations were counted.
The high court’s action means that the 3rd Circuit ruling cannot be used as a precedent in the three states covered by this regional federal appellate court – Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware – to allow the counting of ballots with minor flaws such as the voter failing to fill in the date. Vacating the ruling does not change Ritter’s loss in his race.
This is really complicated legal stuff obviously. According to the Pennsylvania law, voters are required to write the date on the outer envelope of a mail-in ballot. I am assuming that this detail would be in the instructions provided to the voter. If they ignore the instructions, then, under the law, the ballot can’t be counted. One of the issue back in the “Tainted Election of 2020” was Pennsylvania flat out ignoring their own laws on elections and voting.
As I understand this, the Supreme Court has basically told Pennsylvania that they have to actually follow their own laws regarding validating a ballot that comes in by mail. The problem is that Pennsylvania’s top offices are held by Democrats and they know that if they actually upheld the law, they wouldn’t be in office. Now they are saying that they are going to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling. Here are those details from Fox News:
A top election official in Pennsylvania says the state will disregard the U.S. Supreme Court’s guidance on counting mail-in ballots arriving in envelopes with typos or incorrect dates, saying that the state’s Commonwealth Court has already established the practice as licit.
Pennsylvania’s election laws have historically required voters to include a signature and date on the outside of return envelopes when voting by mail. However, acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman announced that Pennsylvania election officials should continue counting ballots that arrive with improperly filled-out envelopes, in accordance with the Commonwealth Court’s previous ruling on the matter.
Well that makes sense. How else are the Democrats going to rig elections and stuff ballot boxes if they have to deal with such minutia as making sure their fake ballots look legitimate? They don’t have time for this when they need to crank out thousands of ballots and deliver them to the locations they need to make sure they win. Of course, there is this little matter of the United States Supreme Court.
“Every county is expected to include undated ballots in their official returns for the Nov. 8 election, consistent with the Department of State’s guidance,” Chapman wrote. “That guidance followed the most recent ruling of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court holding that both Pennsylvania and federal law prohibit excluding legal votes because the voter omitted an irrelevant date on the ballot return envelope.”
And what about the Supreme Court?
“Today’s order from the U.S. Supreme Court vacating the Third Circuit’s decision on mootness grounds was not based on the merits of the issue and does not affect the prior decision of Commonwealth Court in any way,” the acting secretary of state continued. “It provides no justification for counties to exclude ballots based on a minor omission, and we expect that counties will continue to comply with their obligation to count all legal votes.”
Congratulations you barking moonbat, you may have just created a constitutional crises. In case you skipped that class in Law School, the Supreme Court is the “Supreme” court in the United States. They said that the Third Circuit Court’s ruling, which is another, lower, federal court is invalid. There is also the little detail that you are also ignoring your own state’s election laws. It sounds to me that you are planning on rigging the 2022 and 2024 elections to favor the Democrats.
I don’t have any idea on what the next steps might be if Chapman does ignore the Court and the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I think she should be hauled up to the appropriate legislative oversight committees in Pennsylvania and asked some very pointed questions regarding her remarks and instructions. We’re less than a month away from the midterm elections and it will be interesting to see if “Interesting but questionable” things happen…Again
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Until there are swift and brutal repercussions for this kind of chicanery no election can be considered valid. This is the death knell of the republic. There is some historical satisfaction in the occasion happening in Pennsylvania where the birth cries of the republic first sounded.