Posted on 11/08/2022 10:39:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Pennsylvania lieutenant governor and Democratic US Senate candidate John Fetterman predicted on Monday that his Republican challenger, Dr. Mehmet Oz, will take an early lead on election day, only for a "dramatic" change to happen overnight as more ballots are counted, according to the Western Journal.
"Counting for ballots cast by mail and early in-person cannot begin until Election Day, thanks to the GOP-controlled legislature — an intentional move to help Republicans baselessly sow doubt about the election results when it suits them,” Fetterman wrote in a memo to “interested parties," reads a memo from Fetterman, according to the Washington Post.
"Pennsylvania is one of only eight states that bans pre-processing of early mail-in ballots, forcing county officials to wait until 7 a.m. on Tuesday to begin opening returned ballots and scanning them into the system," he added.
Fetterman pointed to the 1.4 million mail-in ballots requested, saying they will skew heavily Democratic when counted.
The journalistic consortium Spotlight PA reported that roughly 70 percent of the mail-in ballot requests came from registered Democrats. -Western Journal
"The biggest share of absentee and mail ballot requests came from Allegheny County [which includes Pittsburgh] and Philadelphia — nearly a quarter of the total," Spotlight reports.
"Because Pennsylvania is one of the only states that reports Election Day totals first before ballots cast by mail, and because more populated counties around Philadelphia can take longer to report, we should expect one of the most dramatic shifts in the country from initial GOP support in early results to stronger Democratic gains as more votes are processed," said Fetterman.
Meanwhile, Fetterman has tapped controversial Clinton lawyer Marc Elias' firm to challenge Pennsylvania election provisions.
As Jonathan Turley writes;
Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes. He has turned to a controversial former lawyer for Hillary Clinton to seek to strike down the provision.
John Fetterman, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is suing Pennsylvania’s 67 county boards of elections over the “Date Instruction,” which prevents counties from counting undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots (ballots that are timely cast and valid but missing a date on their outer return envelopes). The challenge is brought under the First and Fourteenth Amendments as well as the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act.
The Supreme Court previously ruled that these rules are mandatory in Date Instruction on a Petition for Discretionary Review in In re Canvass of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots of November 3, 2020 General Election, 241 A.3d 1058, 1062 (Pa. 2020). A majority found the language of the law to be clear and mandatory. The requirement is contained in Section 3150.16 of the Election Code:
At any time after receiving an official mail-in ballot, but on or before eight o’clock P.M. the day of the primary or election, the mail-in elector shall, in secret, proceed to mark the ballot only in black lead pencil, indelible pencil or blue, black or blue-black ink, in fountain pen or ball point pen, and then fold the ballot, enclose and securely seal the same in the envelope on which is printed, stamped or endorsed “Official Election Ballot.” This envelope shall then be placed in the second one, on which is printed the form of declaration of the elector, and the address of the elector’s county board of election and the local election district of the elector. The elector shall then fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on such envelope. Such envelope shall then be securely sealed and the elector shall send same by mail, postage prepaid, except where franked, or deliver it in person to said county board of election.
25 P.S. § 3150.16(a) (emphasis added).
The majority held that, regardless of the perceived wisdom of such requirements, it is unambiguously required by the state of Pennsylvania after being approved by the state legislature
Fetterman is now asking the federal courts to negate the state provision as an “unnecessary impediment [under] the Civil Rights Act and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.”
The problem is that the legislature clearly concluded that such dates are material to the security of the vote-by-mail system. Fetterman is asking the federal court to simply declare that it is not since Section 101(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides:
“No person acting under color of law shall . . . deny the right of any individual to vote in any election because of an error or omission on any record or paper relating to any application, registration, or other act requisite to voting, if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such individual is qualified under State law to vote in such election.”
Under the constitutional claims, Fetterman argues that “the Date Instruction serves no legitimate purpose. It is a trivial procedural formality that functions only to disenfranchise eligible voters seeking to vote.”
Fetterman is relying on the controversial former Clinton counsel Marc Elias and his Elias Law Group. We have previously discussed the controversial history of Elias, including accusations by reporters of allegedly denying the funding of Steele Dossier by the Clinton campaign. He has also been sanctioned by the courts and the Clinton campaign was recently sanctioned by the FEC over its hiding of the funding of the dossier through his prior firm
Elias has also been criticized for challenging elections when he and other Democratic lawyers denounced Republican challenges as a threat to democracy. Elias later came under intense criticism after a tweet that some have called inherently racist. He was denounced for a tweet where he suggested that Georgia voters could not be expected to be able to read their driver’s licenses correctly — a statement that seemed to refer to minority voters who would be disproportionately impacted by such a requirement.
The use of Elias backfired in the prior election when Terry McAuliffe hired Elias to make challenges against now Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s campaign.
In this case, local counsel is Adam C. Bonin, who signed the complaint below.
Here is the complaint: Fetterman lawsuit
There was the lefty propaganda TV series “Designated Survivor”
“mcconnell, romney, graham, McCain”
I call them the designated losers.
They began counting mail in ballots at 7am. Polls close at 8pm. There should. Or be some huge dump of mail in ballots coming in late. Majority should be counted and available the minute the polls close. They will have been. Counting mail in ballots for 13 hours by then.
Yes mail ins will trend Democrat but the idea massive late batches should be waiting to me is bs. If they “stop counting” to go home, the fix is in
PA gets what they deserve.
His internal polling is probably not looking all that good. That is the reason he hired the Clinton lawyer.
Philly area always comes in earlier too, that’’s a lie they come in super late, usually they are in by in large by 10-11.. usually giving the dem a huge lead that evaporates as rest of the state comes in
Yes, Republicans passed Act 77, but it wasn’t to sow doubt. It was out of stupidity. The Republicans also passed a bill after the 2020 election to allow mail-in votes to be counted early. Gov. Tommie the Commie vetoed that bill. While that wouldn’t have fixed all the fraud problems, it would have been better than nothing.
What’s needed is one Election Day, voting by paper ballot, counted by hand at the precinct with observers. Go back to the old absentee ballot rules for those out of state on Election Day.
Marc Elias.
Talk about a friggin threat to democracy . . .
Watch. It’s not going to happen again…
PA has done nothing to prevent the fraud of 2020…. The GOPe, PA Supreme Court we’re active participants in the steal.
It’s beyond amazing the PA Supreme Court enforced the date and signature requirements. In 2020 they ordered undated and unsigned and late received ballots counted against the law.
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Until the governorship changes hands don’t expect PA to change and even then it’s a long shot. The GOPe here is just as much a swamp as anything in DC
You KNOW Fetterman didn’t say this.
He said, “True is prediction election was true; is overnight, we come, they come back. Drama. Fracking.”
Wouldn’t surprise me if the FIB headquarters was closed today. They don’t give a SH*T about DemonRat voter fraud, unless of course THEY ARE ENGAGED IN PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO SUCH FRAUD.
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Yes that’s how it’s always been. Philly comes in early with huge D numbers and then the rest of the state come in
Now excuse mail I’m allowed massive fraud likes of which has never been seen in 2020
He’s letting the cat out of the bag!
He isn’t very swift, is he...
The fraud has been planned and implemented from the White House down to the ground level. I fear liberty and rights are lost.
Fetterman’s trolling.
Why are you hiring a lawyer, Johnn??? Respect the election results!!!
Sounds right as Obama runs Biden and company.
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