Fruit of the poisoned tree, next time vote in-person or on time as prescribed by the Legislature.
The court ruled that it was okay to put it in the mail on Election Day. The voter did nothing wrong. Are you saying that the voter should have their rights taken away because they followed a court ruling?
Bullshit. Using the courts to silence voters is disgusting.
And when they did that, they told the voters of the state that they could mail up to election day. The voter then followed that directive in good faith. Now some outside entity that doesn't even live in Pennsylvania wants to take that voter's right away after they followed the prescribed rules.
Dooooooooooooooon't think so.
AGREE! The Courts told citizens that it was OKAY to vote by mail, as long as their ballot was post stamp by election day.
No one can take that back now. The citizens followed, what they all were told was legal and okay.
If the citizens had been told that it was illegal, they would not have voted by mail through election day, and would have found another means to vote.
If Trump and DeJoy wouldn't have screwed the post office on their delivery times, then none of this would have happened.
EXACTLY. You can't have a state tell its voters "put your vote in the mail by November 3" and then two weeks later have an unrelated outside entity go "get in the time machine and put it in the mail by October 30". That disenfranchises people.
Pennsylvania, among its other Neanderthal state laws, didn't have early voting either, so the only alternative to day-of voting was the mail. Feds can't **** wit dat.
The SCOTUS had already stated that they would revisit the issue after the election, so if the Democrats told people to
mail their ballots up through Nov 3, the Democrats fucked up, didn't they????
The
state supreme court told the state that, not "Democrats".
If courts are going to change the rules, the rules need to be settled before Election Day, before voters rely on them.
www.nationalreview.com
The U.S. Supreme Court just left in place, for the second time so far, a decision by the Pennsylvania supreme court that threw out part of the election law passed by the lawmakers of Pennsylvania, and substituted instead rules written by judges. The Pennsylvania
decision, issued on a
party-line vote by the elected Democrats who constitute the Pennsylvania court’s majority, used the open-ended guarantees of “free and equal” elections and “free exercise of the right of suffrage” to invalidate the legislature’s deadline for mail-in ballots to be received by 8 p.m. Election Day — the same time the in-person polls close. Worse, defying basic principles of interpreting statutes, the Pennsylvania court not only rejected the deadline, but disregarded the explicit instruction by the Pennsylvania legislature — in Act 77, a law signed by the state’s Democratic governor in 2019 — that if any part of the carefully crafted bipartisan compromise was invalidated, the entire thing (including its provisions for mail-in voting) had to be invalidated. Basically, the Pennsylvania court ruled that Democrats could keep part of a legislative deal they liked, while disregarding the rest. There was clear evidence, moreover, that the Pennsylvania legislature wanted the deadline to apply
even after the COVID pandemic, as a new law was passed this year during the pandemic — and again, signed by Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat — making several accommodations to aspects of the election law in light of the pandemic, but
not changing the mail-in deadline. The Pennsylvania court claimed that an extension was needed because of Postal Service delays and experience from the state’s primary in the spring, although the court went out of its way to decide this on a record that ignored evidence compiled in a companion case that demonstrated that no extension was necessary.
Whatever deadlines should be, this much should be clear: If courts are going to change the rules, the rules need to be settled before Election Day, before voters rely on them, and before the judges deciding a case know who is winning or who needs what outcomes in order to win the election. That was
the point Andy McCarthy made about why the Supreme Court should have taken this case now, even if it was going to rule in the Democrats’ favor, rather than wait until after the election. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh clearly agree in principle, because on Monday they
ruled in favor of striking down a similar bit of mischief by a
federal judge in Wisconsin. But today’s ruling was different: Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the Court’s three liberals in refusing, for the second time, to hear the Pennsylvania case now. They did not turn away the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s petition, but they refused to expedite its consideration.