I was under the impression that only state legislatures can change a state’s election laws. Not Federal judges.
Every ballot must be counted, except GOP ballots
Ok. Let the RNC dump begin. It will be the first election in US history where the number of voters exceeds the general population.
I don’t fault Trump for this, as he was likely just having a subordinate pick out possible appointments because...he likely delegated that and had to trust advice before approving the appointment.
We know how many swamp denizens were advising him.
“On July 30, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Baxter to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania”
She was renominated by Trump.
Still time to appeal, if they will.
If the richest, most technologically advanced country in the history of countries is claiming it cannot verify voter rolls or count votes, it’s not because they lack the ability!
(It’s because someone very powerful does not want it done!”
Perhaps it’s worth considering the idea of outsourcing our elections to Argentina’s capable hands? That might ensure we learn the results within a day and alleviate concerns about Democrats cheating.
Law school was ground zero for leftist indoctrination, it is virtually impossible to find a judge who isn’t brainwashed.
Either that or this person is insane?
This makes no sense whatsoever.
We are becoming Venezuela
Leaving aside the issue of federal overreach, and of distaste for the easy-peasy mail ballot approach making it sooooo easy to ballot harvest . . .
(I love the great success the RNC has had of standing up a ballot harvest strategy. /sarc). . .
Isn’t this ruling logical on the facts in view? If the ballot is received by election day, the missing date makes no difference, substantively, though it is a process error. What am I missing? It may have been filled out I guess too early?
The answer to that idiot is NO. And when the time comes, fire and jail anyone willing to comply. As I tell people in my office, the Nuremberg excuse (“I was only following orders”) got a lot of people hung.
Pennsylvania’s election law is so poorly written that it requires a written date to be marked on the ballot envelope, but it doesn’t even require the date to be ACCURATE. So a ballot mailed in 2024 would be considered valid even of the date on it is July 4, 1776 or February 31, 2024.
IOW: You can start filling them out now and keep mailing them in for a year. Boy, the Dung Beetle turd roller party will be celebrating tonight. They’ve got 2024 in the box now.
Didn’t we just learn that elections must be held on a single day, and any “period of time” election like week, month or season, is a violation of the Constitution?....
I know that came out last week somewhere.
Reminds me of the Gore team back in 2000 when they tried to get military ballots to be thrown out of the count because they lacked postmarks.
Unconstitutional. Period. Ignore the judge.
I can see the logic in this, IF AND ONLY IF it is just the date that is missing from the outer envelope.
As long as the ballot is received prior to the deadline, it doesn't really matter what the date on the envelope says. The arrived ballot proves itself.
What am I missing with this interpretation?
-PJ
According to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore (2000), no court has the authority to create or change election law as established by State Legislatures.