Mike Kelly, Sean Parnell Request To Declare Mail-In Voting Unconstitutional In Pennsylvania, Deny Re
Source: cbslocal.com
Mike Kelly, Sean Parnell Request To Declare Mail-In Voting Unconstitutional In Pennsylvania, Deny Results From 2020 Election Mail-In Ballots
They are calling upon the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania to rule against "universal" mail-in ballot provisions.
November 21, 2020 at 3:39 pm
HARRISBURG (KDKA) — Congressman Mike Kelly and congressional candidate Sean Parnell are requesting the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania to declare universal mail-in voting unconstitutional in the state and deny the votes of the majority of Pennsylvanians who voted by mail in the Nov. 3 election.
In the official request, the plaintiffs specifically cite issue with Act 77 and its “universal mail-in ballot provisions.”
They allege that the provisions that allow all qualified electors to vote by mail in Pennsylvania are unconstitutional.
As such, they are calling for mail-in ballots that they allege do not meet “Constitutional requirements” to not be certified and for only “legal votes” to be certified or for the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose the electors and compensate the legal costs of the plaintiffs.
Both Kelly and Parnell are registered Republicans.
Read more: https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/11/21/mail-in-voting-legal-challenge-pennsylvania/
I would think Republicans in congress would be embarrassed by now. But I guess not. They just let the idiot Trump make fools of themselves--and the Republicans!! Insane
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Bastard!!!!!!!!! 
Of course, he had plenty of help
stupid fuck.
not even a state Rep. 
From our state Attorney General -
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@JoshShapiroPA
The candidates + elected officials who joined this suit should be ashamed of themselves. They’re asking a court to throw out the votes of 2.5 million Pennsylvanians.
It’s another weak attempt to subvert the will of the people. Desperate, hypocritical, baseless... I could go on.
Brad Heath
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Meanwhile, some Pennsylvania Republicans led by Rep. @MikeKellyPA are asking a state court to declare that the state's entire vote-by-mail system, violates the state constitution and that millions of votes cast this year must now be invalidated.
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5:41 PM · Nov 21, 2020
And Lt. Governor -
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Nov 21, 2020
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If PA doesn’t certify our Election results, after November 30th, we technically don’t have a State House of Representatives and 1/2 a state senate.
Which are controlled by Republicans.
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John Fetterman
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Straight up amateur hour.
The only team with a history of losing this much is the Cincinnati Bengals.
1:59 PM · Nov 21, 2020 from Pittsburgh, PA
And delaying/invalidating ballots also invalidates the votes for the whole down-ballot ticket, including the entire PA state House (GOP-controlled), 1/2 the PA state Senate (GOP-controlled), and all 18 members of the Congressional delegation (9 (R) - 9 (D)).
the Cincinnati Bengals by the legendary Pittsburgh broadcaster and sports writer, Myron Cope. Cleveland was the "Cleve Brownies" or collapsed into "Cl-owns". Balt is the "ratbirds". Steelers, to other AFCN teams, are the "Squealers".
It's the same in Philly with "the Cowgirls" and so on.
Then there's Cope famous xmas carol "Deck the Broncos, they're just yonkos, fa lalala, lala, lala".
Oh wait...
Tossed paper pizza plates, plastic take-out bags, and all manner of stuff out of car windows... But then there were and still are the "dumpers" who unload pickup trucks full of construction and home renovation crap into empty lots. They have put up surveillance cameras to finally start catching these idiots. 
Question: How can someone be in first place with a record of 3-5-1?
Answer: Be a member of the NFC East!!!
(Eagles will probably lose to the once-downtrodden now HOT Cleveland Browns
)
This suit would be referencing the law's relationship to the PA state Constitution, not the U.S. Constitution (a dispute of which would need to be filed in federal court, their previous attempts of which have been thrown out over and over and over in that venue ).
In this case, what the law does is take the existing election code that permitted "absentee ballots" (which have been around for many many decades) and creates a version of the "absentee ballot" process that removes the required allowable reasons to vote absentee, which then makes these ballots a "no-excuse absentee ballot".
I.e., the use of an absentee ballot requires specific permitted reasons for not being able to vote at the designated polling place on election day (e.g., "out of town on that day", "incapacitated", etc.). With the expansion of "absentee ballots" to a model no longer needing an excuse (although still retaining the original absentee ballot process), then what reason would be valid that would not throw out the whole absentee ballot process used for critical people including our military serving overseas?
And given there have been no challenges over many decades (that I am aware of) to the original absentee ballot process, then what makes this different?
What is in place in PA is different from what other states have implemented - including next door neighbor state New Jersey, where the state automatically sends out "mail ballots" to every registered voter. Here in PA, you have to explicitly apply for a "no-excuse absentee ballot" (the technical name for it), and then when approved, you are given the option to continue that method for any remaining elections for that year only. The following year if you want to vote in that manner, you have to re-apply for a "no-excuse absentee ballot", otherwise you would need to show up at your designated polling location if you plan to vote and don't apply for a regular absentee ballot (with an excuse).
And as a sidenote - both KY and UT, ruby red states, have this type of ballot and used them for their elections. Why aren't those being challenged in court by their campaign? 
that was basically the gist. The judge indicated that the thrust should be for more voting rather than less and that the plaintiff didn't show that the fault of the allegations was that of the SOS, as the offer was made to all counties.
I read an analysis yesterday (I think in the Inquirer) that IIRC indicated that there were 4 red counties in PA where a majority of mail-in ballots were for 45 (have to find the article again), so it wasn't like the option wasn't available to all and that GOP voters were somehow unable to use the option.
The arguments the "voters" who were part of the suit made, was that their counties didn't avail them of the ability to cure, but that's not Boockvar's fault (I think one of the counties in the suit was Lancaster).
Besides, if they thought it was unconstitutional, why didn't they bring suit well before the election?
I'm sure this will make lots of noise on Faux News and right-wing talk radio, just as they wish.
KY........
I voted absentee the entire time I was in college and when I worked on my congressman's campaign, I told parents how to request absentee ballots for heir kids who were college students. And hasn't Trump voted absentee? 
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4:30 PM · Oct 22, 2020
I know the 4 years I was away at college I voted absentee and my mom would tell me that when she went to vote at our polling place, the poll workers (who usually know the regulars who vote every election) would tell her that yes indeed, they got my absentee ballot (since they are sent in well before the election and handed over to the Division to register and eventually process on or after election day).
I remember seeing them on the news! And when I was in college, my mother made sure that I got an absentee ballot - and we got calls from other parents at campaign headquarters when I worked for my congressman so I gave instructions to them. I must have voted absentee before I ever voted in person because I was away at school before I was even 18 - unless you count the times when I was really little and went into the voting booth with my father, he'd pick me up and tell me which levers to push, though I have no idea who I voted for... 
They were tanks!!
