PeterS wrote:
Snip>>>(1)How Pennsylvania expanded by-mail v****g
In October 2019, the Republican-led Pennsylvania General Assembly passed an e******n law, Act 77, that added no-excuse v****g by mail, a provision pushed by Democrats. The act says that any qualified e*****r who is not eligible to be an absentee e*****r can get a mail-in b****t. Republicans got one of their priorities included too: elimination of straight-ticket v****g. The bill drew supporters from both parties, but it had more support from Republicans. “It was always touted as a bipartisan effort to get ready for 2020, pre-p******c, bring Pennsylvania in line with Florida and Ohio and a bunch of states that had the no excuse system,” said Edward B. Foley, an Ohio State University constitutional law professor who specializes in e******ns.
Act 77 required constitutional challenges be brought within 180 days, but that didn’t happen. After Trump lost the Nov. 3 e******n, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and co-plaintiffs filed a case against state officials arguing that the mail-in b****t provisions in Act 77 were a violation. Kelly asked the court to prohibit the certification of results that included mail-in b****ts or direct the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose e*****rs.
One week later, the state Supreme Court dismissed the petition as untimely, writing that the plaintiffs filed their case more than a year after Act 77 was enacted and after millions of residents had already v**ed in the primary and general e******ns. The case was filed as the final b****ts “were being tallied, with the results becoming seemingly apparent,” the court wrote. The court’s three-page order did not address whether Act 77 and the state constitution were in conflict.
“It is not our role to lend legitimacy to such t***sparent and untimely efforts to subvert the will of Pennsylvania v**ers,”Justice David Wecht, a Democrat, wrote.
Chief Justice Thomas Saylor, a Republican, wrote that throwing out v**es at this point was extreme and untenable: “There has been too much good-faith reliance, by the e*****rate, on the no-excuse mail-in v****g regime created by Act 77.”
After losing, Kelly took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, where an emergency application for injunctive relief was denied by Justice Samuel Alito Dec. 8. Kelly is still seeking review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania’s Republican senator, said many Pennsylvania lawmakers believe the law is constitutional.
“Clearly the state legislature and governor believe it is consistent with the state constitution,” Toomey said. “This law wasn’t challenged when it was passed, it wasn’t challenged when it was applied during the June primary e******n. It was only challenged after President Trump lost the general e******n.”
And where does it say that? I know you will never understand this, but that the US Constitution gives each state sole rights over the writing of their v**er laws. That's the reason for the "no standing" ruling--one state has "no standing" for another state to object to how they, both write and interpret their own v****g laws.
And I know, all that sailed straight over your head...
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Not at all Other requirements not in the bill were dropped by bureaucrats. Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona were the biggest offenders. Like I said; we know what you are.