Friday, January 28, 2022

Another Covid year Election law shot down by the courts!

Pennsylvania mail in votes were the largest statistical aberration of the entire 2020 election 

This will be bittersweet news for a lot of people. A five-judge panel has ruled that Pennsylvania’s universal mail-in voting law violates the state’s constitution, an argument conservatives have been making since it was enacted in 2019. That election law went on to play a pivotal role in delivering the state for Joe Biden in 2020, who trailed on Election Night, but pulled ahead as more and more mail-in votes were counted.
The court’s decision essentially made the case that any law to make mail-in ballots universal versus only being allowed in defined circumstances needed to come via an amendment to the state’s constitution, given the current language. That was the same case former President Donald Trump’s legal team attempted to make. Unfortunately, the courts at the time brushed off their challenge. Now, though it’s far too late to change things, there is some vindication happening on that front.

Still doesn't explain or change the fact that Joe Biden won 76% of the mail in ballots in spite of the demographic makeup of the returned ballots (Pennsylvania mails and returns ballots by political Party) suggesting he would garner no more than 70%.  This was a swing of somewhere between a 200,000-300,000 vote difference in the end result. Most election observers (including the Biden camp itself) had written off Pennsylvania to Trump on election night, expecting him to win by as much a quarter million votes. 

But it does show how these courts were so quick to undermine and toss any and all lawsuits, generally arguing lack of standing or dropping them on some sort of legal technicality while never actually ruling on the merits. Arguments that Trump "lost" all of his election lawsuits were simply disinformation, if not outright lies. He continues to win them, albeit after the fact when it doesn't matter anymore.

 

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Roger, please , stay on topic and don't span this thread.

The Election in 2022 is already been invalidated by the Sitting President.
By stating clearly and to the point that the up coming 2022 Elections are
 illegitimate -

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The law, known as Act 77, was passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly and signed by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in fall of 2019.

The suit was brought by a Republican county commissioner from Bradford County, as well as 14 legislators — 11 of whom voted for the law. In fact, in both chambers, all but two GOP lawmakers voted for the proposal.

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At the time, it was seen as a bipartisan win that expanded voting access. Since then, millions of Pennsylvanians have used mail-in ballots to participate in democracy.

However, Republicans began to sour on the law, amid former President Donald Trump’s baseless efforts to delegitimize mail-in votes in the lead up to the 2020 election.

In November 2020, after he lost Pennsylvania and the presidency, some of the former president’s allies filed a similar suit to invalidate the law and have millions of legally cast mail-in ballots thrown out, likely handing the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of President Joe Biden.

The state Supreme Court rejected their arguments, but the court will likely hear them anew.

Adam Bonin, a Philadelphia elections attorney who often works for Democrats, told the Capital-Star he expected the ruling to be overturned on an appeal to the state Supreme Court, which the Wolf administration filed Friday afternoon.

“Not only do I expect this decision to be overturned, but it’s crucial that the state Supreme Court act quickly to stay the effect of this decision,” Bonin said.

With the appeal. Pennsylvania court procedure mandates that the lower court’s order will automatically be stayed — meaning mail-in voting will remain legal until the high court issues a ruling.

While the decision creates another layer of uncertainty on the commonwealth’s upcoming elections, the local officials who run elections are used to it by now, after years of court fights and legislative inaction on election law.

Counties are caught in between as Wolf, GOP once again try to negotiate election reform

One county election official, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, expressed more displeasure about the timing than the ruling itself.

“An election director looks at this decision and says, ‘who cares?’ It’s going to be appealed,” they told the Capital-Star.

But with election day ticking closer, it does present the spectre of a time crunch in a month or two, when the state Supreme Court has to issue a final order — and “we’ll have no time to deal with the implications.”

Before Act 77, voters were restricted to two voting options specifically mentioned in the Pennsylvania state constitution — in-person at a polling place, or by absentee ballot.

“The Legislature shall, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified electors who may, on the occurrence of any election, be absent from the municipality of their residence,” the constitution says.

The section then mentions work, illness, or religious observances as a reason a voter may request an absentee ballot.

Combined with tight statutory timelines, Pennsylvania’s absentee ballot laws were among the strictest in the nation, and there was bipartisan agreement among state and local officials as well as advocates to loosen these standards in fall of 2019.

There’s bipartisan agreement Pa.’s absentee voting law is broken. Will the Legislature act?

What got the deal done was a trade. Wolf, a Democrat, agreed to sign a bill that would remove the option of straight-ticket voting from Pennsylvania ballots — a GOP priority — as well as let any voter apply for a mail-in ballot without an excuse up to 50 days before an election.

The bill sailed through the General Assembly in about a week. Legislative Democrats were skeptical about the straight-ticket voting repeal, but Wolf called it a “giant leap forward” and signed it into law surrounded by smiling Republican lawmakers.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The suit was brought by a Republican county commissioner from Bradford County, as well as 14 legislators — 11 of whom voted for the law. In fact, in both chambers, all but two GOP lawmakers voted for the proposal.


Cultist like you were brainwashed by Trump


This is how many times in history when even good people get suckered by dictators

However, Republicans began to sour on the law, amid former President Donald Trump’s baseless efforts to delegitimize mail-in votes in the lead up to the 2020 election.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

the ruling could have a chilling effect on people who don’t often engage in politics.

This is an opportunity for someone to receive poor information, or bad information, or incomplete information and change their voting habits.!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mail-in ballots allow people who work multiple jobs with little day-to-day flexibility to participate in democracy! Removing the option here smacked of the judiciary playing politics, amid widespread Republican efforts to restrict access to the ballot box.

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Commonsense said...

This is how many times in history when even good people get suckered by dictators

However, Republicans began to sour on the law, amid former President Donald Trump’s baseless efforts to delegitimize mail-in votes in the lead up to the 2020 election.


More than likely it was the GOP who got suckered by Democrats. They've won four years of controlling the presidency and two years of controlling Congress.

Hopefully the GOP can stop the Democrats from making the senate a smaller version of the house.