Subj : Re: My nation, America,
To : Ron Lauzon
From : Vague
Date : Wed Feb 10 2021 06:42 pm
-=> Ron Lauzon wrote to Gregory Deyss <=-
-=> Gregory Deyss wrote to Dale Shipp <=-
GD> You might understand this when and if you pick up the last Time
GD> Magazine. It's all out and is available for all to read.
GD> The secret history of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 election.
RL> I love the word "Saved". It sounds like it was a good thing to subvert
RL> the will of the American people to put a bunch of ignorante Elites in
RL> power.
Are we talking about Pennsylvania changing their mail-in voting rules? Cool:
In October 2019, the Republican-led Pennsylvania General Assembly passed an
election law, Act 77, that added no-excuse voting by mail, a provision pushed
by Democrats. The act says that any qualified elector who is not eligible to be
an absentee elector can get a mail-in ballot. Republicans got one of their
priorities included too: elimination of straight-ticket voting. 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-pandemic, 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 elections.
Act 77 required constitutional challenges be brought within 180 days, but that
didn’t happen. After Trump lost the Nov. 3 election, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly,
R-Pa., and co-plaintiffs filed a case against state officials arguing that the
mail-in ballot provisions in Act 77 were a violation. Kelly asked the court to
prohibit the certification of results that included mail-in ballots or direct
the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose electors.
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 voted in the primary and
general elections. The case was filed as the final ballots “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 transparent and untimely
efforts to subvert the will of Pennsylvania voters,” Justice David Wecht, a
Democrat, wrote.
Chief Justice Thomas Saylor, a Republican, wrote that throwing out votes at
this point was extreme and untenable: “There has been too much good-faith
reliance, by the electorate, on the no-excuse mail-in voting 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
election. It was only challenged after President Trump lost the general
election.”
... Your inability to understand something is not a valid argument against it.
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