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Desperation is sinking in for Fetterman and the Democrats in Pennsylvania.
And the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has already ruled, as has SCOTUS. So what do they expect to achieve here except delay, delay, delay?
The District Court really needs to throw this lawsuit out in light of the SCOTUS and Pennsylvania Supreme Court rulings.
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s campaign for U.S. Senate has joined the legal fight over whether mail ballots with no date or the incorrect date should be counted in Tuesday’s election.
The Democratic campaign sued Pennsylvania elections officials Monday asking a federal judge to order that all mail ballots be counted regardless of what date, if any, voters wrote on the outside of the envelope.
State law requires that voters handwrite a date on the outer envelope when returning their mail ballots, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that undated and wrongly dated mail ballots be set aside and not counted. The court issued a follow-up order Saturday setting specific date ranges that the handwritten dates must fall within.
There will likely be tens of thousands of undated and wrongly dated ballots rejected statewide under that ruling. Because mail ballots are so disproportionately used by Democrats over Republicans, that will likely mean thousands, if not tens of thousands, of net votes for Fetterman that are rejected.
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A federal appeals court in Philadelphia agreed in a different case earlier this year that rejecting ballots violates the Materiality Provision, which led a state court to order undated mail ballots counted in the May primary.
But the federal court decision was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court last month. That led the Republican National Committee to sue over the issue, resulting in last week’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court order that both undated and wrongly dated ballots be rejected.
The federal court in Pittsburgh has not yet set a hearing for either the Fetterman suit or the one filed by voting rights groups Friday.
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And the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has already ruled, as has SCOTUS. So what do they expect to achieve here except delay, delay, delay?
The District Court really needs to throw this lawsuit out in light of the SCOTUS and Pennsylvania Supreme Court rulings.
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s campaign for U.S. Senate has joined the legal fight over whether mail ballots with no date or the incorrect date should be counted in Tuesday’s election.
The Democratic campaign sued Pennsylvania elections officials Monday asking a federal judge to order that all mail ballots be counted regardless of what date, if any, voters wrote on the outside of the envelope.
State law requires that voters handwrite a date on the outer envelope when returning their mail ballots, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that undated and wrongly dated mail ballots be set aside and not counted. The court issued a follow-up order Saturday setting specific date ranges that the handwritten dates must fall within.
There will likely be tens of thousands of undated and wrongly dated ballots rejected statewide under that ruling. Because mail ballots are so disproportionately used by Democrats over Republicans, that will likely mean thousands, if not tens of thousands, of net votes for Fetterman that are rejected.
...
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia agreed in a different case earlier this year that rejecting ballots violates the Materiality Provision, which led a state court to order undated mail ballots counted in the May primary.
But the federal court decision was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court last month. That led the Republican National Committee to sue over the issue, resulting in last week’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court order that both undated and wrongly dated ballots be rejected.
The federal court in Pittsburgh has not yet set a hearing for either the Fetterman suit or the one filed by voting rights groups Friday.
John Fettermanâs Pa. Senate campaign is suing to have undated and misdated ballots counted
There will likely be tens of thousands of undated and wrongly dated ballots rejected statewide under a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling.
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