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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,882 posts)
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 01:08 AM Nov 2020

Judges rule against Trump campaign in 6 Pennsylvania cases over absentee ballots

Source: CNN

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CNN logoJudges rule against Trump campaign in 6 Pennsylvania cases over absentee ballots

Two judges in Pennsylvania on Friday tossed a half dozen court cases the Trump campaign had brought to invalidate thousands of votes around Philadelphia, where voters carried President-elect Joe Biden to a clear win in the battleground state.

In total, the Trump campaign had sought to throw out almost 9,000 absentee ballots because their outer envelopes lack names, dates or addresses or some combination of the three that voters could have filled out.

In five related cases, Judge James Crumlish of Philadelphia County's Court of Common Pleas said the Trump campaign couldn't invalidate 8,329 ballots it alleged were improper. The judge ruled those ballots should be processed and counted.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judges-rule-against-trump-campaign-in-6-pennsylvania-cases-over-absentee-ballots/ar-BB1b07wZ?li=BB141NW3



This runs counter to that idiot female Trump apologist on Bill Maher today.
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Judges rule against Trump campaign in 6 Pennsylvania cases over absentee ballots (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
Jenna should retire to the padded room srose58089 Nov 2020 #1
Conservative Lawyers Group gonna be arriving soon to.... greenjar_01 Nov 2020 #2
So what how many of these dumb lawsuits has he lost now? madaboutharry Nov 2020 #3
Seems like frivolous lawsuits to me and should have had a fine! riversedge Nov 2020 #4
Some info from the link about the missing information progree Nov 2020 #5
Here's the deal with those outer envelopes BumRushDaShow Nov 2020 #6
They say if "DemocRATS" win, we'll have to wear Covid burqas 4ever and have to say "Happy Holidays" progree Nov 2020 #7
Exactly plus BumRushDaShow Nov 2020 #8
And Biden and the Islamo-Maoist "squad" will defund the police and burn down the cities 😂 /nt progree Nov 2020 #9
... BumRushDaShow Nov 2020 #10

srose58089

(214 posts)
1. Jenna should retire to the padded room
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 01:25 AM
Nov 2020

I just listened to the tRump apologist Jenna on Bill Maher and had to do a shot of crown royal. Under what rock did she climb out from?

progree

(10,901 posts)
5. Some info from the link about the missing information
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 05:33 AM
Nov 2020
Haaz found that state law didn't require voters to fill out the address sections on the envelopes, and the instructions on the ballots didn't tell voters they must fill them out.

"Voters should not be disenfranchised by reasonably relying upon voting instructions provided by election officials," Haaz wrote.

The Trump campaign had said in court that it wasn't alleging voting fraud in the cases -- just attempting to enforce the rules.


BumRushDaShow

(128,769 posts)
6. Here's the deal with those outer envelopes
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 07:42 AM
Nov 2020

Here in Philly, ALL of them already have the voter's name, address, and both a barcode AND QR code associated with that voter, pre-printed on the back of the envelope on the lower right corner of the envelope. This little label is directly opposite and below the section where the voter would hand print a date/name/address/signature and is under the section that a 3rd party "witness" would complete if submitting on behalf of a voter.

The squared-off oval depicted with dashed lines shown below on the bottom right corner has a pre-printed name/address of the voter and includes a barcode AND a QR code in that little section. This lets elections workers quickly scan the outer envelope into the system without opening it, to confirm that the ballot was "received" and associate it to the person it was received from so that voter can no longer attempt to vote again in any manner (and that data gets sent to the state who will send an email to say the ballot was "timely received and recorded", although it would not have been "canvassed and tallied" until election day once they started the official counting) -



(ETA to note, the above image was not created by the city but one of many voter-focused organizations)

Basically they wanted to pull what they routinely do in red states to blue voters - notably POC - to disenfranchise based on any "infraction" they can manufacture. It brings to mind the Oprah Winfrey scene in the movie "Selma" -



If anything, there was a massive focus on "naked ballots" (where there was a near-freakish level of hysteria about the potential for "hundreds of thousands of ballots being tossed" due to that and at the end, there were supposedly "only" 10,000 that came in without the "secrecy envelope", which to me is still 10,000 lost votes, but was a number considered "minor" to the city at this point.

This was only our 2nd election using "no-excuse absentee ballots" (the first being the primary, when a significant number of people DON'T vote), so this was new to much of the occasional-voting populace.

progree

(10,901 posts)
7. They say if "DemocRATS" win, we'll have to wear Covid burqas 4ever and have to say "Happy Holidays"
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 08:18 AM
Nov 2020


Thanks for the all the good info

BumRushDaShow

(128,769 posts)
8. Exactly plus
Sat Nov 14, 2020, 08:25 AM
Nov 2020

ALL YOUR GUNZ WILL BE TAKEN AWAY!!11!!!!!! And you will be forced to become Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/Communist/Nazi pedophiles in the FEMA re-education camps while MS-13 runs rampant through your neighborhoods raping your wives AND your husbands AND your animals...

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