Marc Elias is involved and is a friend of Bob Casey’s.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court banned them from counting undated mail-in ballots. They are doing it anyway.
The lawsuits ask courts not to allow counties to count mail-in ballots where the voter didn’t write a date on the return envelope or wrote an incorrect date. The two GOP suits could be among many before the last vote in the Senate race is counted, especially with the contest headed toward a state-mandated recount.
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The Associated Press called the race for McCormick last week, concluding that not enough ballots remained to be counted in areas Casey was winning for him to take the lead.
As of Thursday, McCormick led by about 26,000 votes out of more than 6.9 million ballots counted — inside the 0.5% margin threshold to trigger an automatic statewide recount under Pennsylvania law.
The national and state Republican parties asked the state Supreme Court to bar counties from counting the ballots, saying those decisions violate both the court’s recent orders and its precedent in upholding the requirement in state law.
In a statement, Pennsylvania Republican Party Chair Lawrence Tabas said, “What’s taking place in these counties is absolute lawlessness.”
The lawsuit said Democratic-majority election boards in Bucks County, Centre County, and Philadelphia voted to count the ballots. Democrats cast more mail-in ballots than Republicans, and Democrats have supported counting ballots that trip over what they view as meaningless clerical requirements in state law.
“We’re going to get sued either way; I’d rather be on the side of counting ballots than not counting them,” Bucks County Commissioner Robert Harvie, a Democrat, said before Tuesday’s vote to count the ballots.
Lower courts have repeatedly deemed it unconstitutional or illegal to throw out such ballots. But higher courts — including the state Supreme Court most recently on Nov. 1 — have blocked those decisions.
Watch them agree to break the law:
#BucksCounty Democrat Commissioners violate the rule of law and ignore PA Supreme Court ruling!
Democrat Commissioners Diane Marseglia and Bob Harvie voted today to count illegal ballots, against PA Supreme Court ruling, in an attempt to aid former Senator Bob Casey.… pic.twitter.com/qAdFlVchmh
— Bucks GOP (@BucksGOP) November 14, 2024
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They’ll be going to prison too. Trump warned them- if they cheat they are going to prison.
They need to STOP They’re lying and scheming, never to be trusted, never again!! The SCOTUS has spoken! Enough is Enough!!
They’re still ‘counting’ ballots in several blue states, probably trying to steal the popular vote as well.
Why would anyone with any desire for general decency continue to support in any way, shape, or form a political party with one remaining “principle” — namely, the endless accumulation of power? Reject today’s DNC, in all its forms and manifestations.
Do they really think they can get away with this? Give it up already.
Dems have gotten away with this for years, why would they think it wouldn’t work in their favor again
Especially the last 4 years. It was like one continuous nightmare, and I couldn’t wake up.
What an appropriate posting name…Think about it…if you speed and no cop pulls you over, what is to stop you from continuing to speed? What enforcement has ever been used against democrat perfidy? Perhaps the answer is the PA Supremes can hold county employees in contempt and have them arrested; I am not a lawyer and I do not know. The one thing I am reluctantly sure of is no significant demonrat has been held to account in ANY of the cheating scandals…not that I am aware of, anyway.