Pennsylvania Court Countermands PA Secretary of State's Lawless Decree Extending the Deadline to "Cure" Defective Ballots

The Democrat Secretary of State had decreed that election law requiring that ballots be received by Election Day be suspended/rescinded, and that a new non-legislative law be substituted in its place.

The Constitution gives the power to decide election laws to state legislators -- not executive officials. This order was illegal.

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that this extension was illegal.

The Trump campaign scored a legal victory in Pennsylvania earlier today when a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court barred election officials from counting mail-in and absentee ballots where voters provided missing information after November 9th.

Last week a Court ordered the ballots be segregated from other ballots received before the November 9th deadline. Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar had made last minute changes and extended the deadline from the 9th to 12th, which is what the Trump campaign challenged.

According to Fox:

A Pennsylvania judge ruled in favor of the Trump campaign Thursday, ordering that the state may not count ballots where the voters needed to provide proof of identification and failed to do so by Nov. 9.

State law said that voters have until six days after the election -- this year that was Nov. 9 -- to cure problems regarding a lack of proof of identification. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots could be accepted three days after Election Day, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar submitted guidance that said proof of identification could be provided up until Nov. 12, which is six days from the ballot acceptance deadline. That guidance was issued two days before Election Day.

{[T]he Court concludes that Respondent Kathy Boockvar, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Commonwealth, lacked statutory authority to issue the November 1, 2020, guidance to Respondents County Boards of Elections insofar as that guidance purported to change the deadline... for certain electors to verify proof of identification," Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said in a court order.

See the article for more, including Boockvar's publicly-evidenced Trump derangement system.

Dave Reaboi made a good point: The left changed all the rules and dialed voter-integrity protections down to essentially zero.

But they want us to believe that, having made fraud laughably easy to achieve, they did not take the next obvious step and defraud the vote.

He also notes that the left has shown that there is no institution it is not willing to corrupt or destroy in order to Get Trump.

But the left -- and their NeverTrumper allies, who are increasingly indistinguishable from run of the mill partisan Democrats -- claim that, "Oh, sure, the left and NeverTrump are willing to burn the media's and all megacorporations' credibility to the ground, and let cities burn, just to Get Trump. But they'd never cheat at an election!"

Really?

REALLY?

I'm also still amazed that asshole simps for socialism who pushed the conspiracy theory that Trump was an asset of Vladimir Putin -- an actual Muscovian Candidate -- continue to get all finger-waggy about "conspiracy theories" that the Democrat Party, well known for committing voter fraud since the 19th century, actually committed voter fraud.

posted by Ace at 06:00 PM

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