Trump campaign loses 5 more cases in Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision
Source: ABC News
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Monday issued opinions rejecting five lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign aimed at invalidating 8,329 ballots cast in the 2020 presidential contest over technical concerns.
Three justices wrote in the majority that, "no allegations of fraud or illegality" came up in examination of the ballots.
"Failures to include a handwritten name, address or date in the voter declaration on the back of the outer envelope, while constituting technical violations of the Election Code, do not warrant the wholesale disenfranchisement of thousands of Pennsylvania voters," Justice Christine L. Donohue wrote for the majority.
Two other justices joined Donohue, while other members of the court issued separate opinions. In one separate opinion, Justice David N. Wecht wrote that while he agrees technically deficient ballots should be counted this year, he does not believe the absence of a date on the declaration "should be overlooked as a 'minor irregularity.'"
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dubyadiprecession
(5,620 posts)Cha
(295,916 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,777 posts)Donald the losers crack (addled) misfits.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)Paul Politerude
(34 posts)Even the Brits know it:
bringthePaine
(1,726 posts)DallasNE
(7,392 posts)So it is at worst a minor irregularity. It was added to the law for the purpose of disenfranchisement.
The voter could write in any date. The post office tracks the ballots and that date is the meaningful date. The Judge should know this.
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)out, meaning there's a knowable window of the earliest date the envelope could have been signed along with a unique barcode on each absentee ballot envelope for each election cycle. The ballot envelope is time-stamped when it's received at the county election bureau. If an absentee ballot was sent out Oct 1 and received back Oct 15, it had to be filled out sometime in between. What specific date doesn't really matter.
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)Maeve
(42,224 posts)SKKY
(11,772 posts)...what are they now? Like, 1 - 40 something?
quaker bill
(8,223 posts)he is working on being the most epic loser of all time.