Let me put this through the Transmogrifier Translater Machine:
Chapman: "**** YOU, SUPREME COURT. WE WILL DO WHATEVER WE ****ING WANT!"
Posted on 10/12/2022 7:43:20 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated a ruling by a lower court on a Pennsylvania case that involved the counting of undated mail-in ballots, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
The Supreme Court ruled on a decision that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made in May in a case involving the 2021 election of Judge Zachary Cohen, ordering the state to count 257 mail-in ballots that lacked a necessary date on the return envelope.
The lower court ruled that the date requirement was "immaterial" and said there was no reason to exclude the ballots that had previously been set aside due to the lack of dates. However, the Supreme Court vacated that decision and ruled that the lower court must "dismiss the case as moot." This decision is not expected to affect the election results in this case.
"The Department of State certainly should update their guidance," Joshua Voss, the attorney in the case that lost in the lower court's ruling, told WHYY. "But at the end of the day, elections are administered by counties and counties will need to assess what the state of the law was."
Leigh Chapman, Pennsylvania's acting secretary of state, said that her department is "reviewing that decision and we'll provide guidance to counties accordingly."
She added: "On our website right now, the current guidance is for counties to count ballots that are missing a date or have the wrong date. As far as the impact on what happened with the Supreme Court, I'm not able to comment further. But what I can say is that we will evaluate and update guidance as necessary."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
The decision means that Republicans will likely file new lawsuits to bar the counting of undated mail-in ballots in future elections.
The lower court essentially said that you can make up your own election rules and the election commission has to accept it.
The rats tried to use a Republican primary to set a precedent to allow undated mail in ballots and the losing Rino was their useful idiot. It the SC had not fixed this the flood gates would have opened even further.
Obviously the Supreme Court ruled against voting rights and democracy. How nasty of them.
The cheaters will cheat and by the time it gets any traction in the courts, the election will be had and additional damage done. They’re always late to their own funeral.
Let me put this through the Transmogrifier Translater Machine:
Chapman: "**** YOU, SUPREME COURT. WE WILL DO WHATEVER WE ****ING WANT!"
Good point that kind of “lost” in the article.
+1
[[The cheaters will cheat and by the time it gets any traction in the courts, the election will be had and additional damage done.]]
And they will attack anyone that questions it, and call them ‘election deniers’ etc
Make people show up at the polls and sbow ID.
No ballots should be counted if it’s unknown when they were cast.
Purple fingers still best....we still get ballots for my deceased (2 years) MIL
They already ruled in favor of the Democrats and counting the undated mail-in ballots in PA. They only said you can’t use that ruling for other states, so it’s not really a victory.
I don’t believe that the USSC really ruled anything very helpful. Dismissing a case does not leave a ruling.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Seems to me that NOBODY KNOWS WTH IT MEANS.
I wish the SC would speak in English and CLEARLY
She added: “On our website right now, the current guidance is for counties to count ballots that are missing a date or have the wrong date.’
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If this is allowed to stand, then why have a date field on the ballot at all if its value is irrelevant. For that matter, what if the name is missing or invalid? Would she want those ballots counted too?
They could have done this much earlier, i.e., the 2020 Big Steal. SCOTUS chose to do nothing collectively, presumably to not appear overly political. However, to choose not to choose, or to delay that choice, is still a choice, and clearly political. Better late than never, but better not to be late when the Republic itself hung in the balance.
“a case involving the 2021 election of Judge Zachary Cohen, ordering the state to count 257 mail-in ballots that lacked a necessary date on the return envelope.”
What date are they talking about? That on the postmark or something else.
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