Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sides with Democrats: Mail-In Ballot Deadline Extended 3 Days After Elect

[mystery-ak]

Breitbart News 17 Sep 2020

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court gave the Democratic Party a series of victories Thursday, including one allowing repairs to glitches and gray areas in the battleground state’s fledgling mail-in voting law and another that kicked the Green Party’s presidential candidate off the November ballot.

The state Supreme Court, which has a 5-2 Democratic majority, granted the Democratic Party’s request to order a three-day extension of Pennsylvania’s Election Day deadline to count mailed-in ballots. And it ruled that the Green Party’s candidate for president did not strictly follow procedures for getting on the ballot in November and cannot appear on it.

Ballots that are eligible to be counted must be postmarked by the time polls close and be received by county election boards at 5 p.m. on Nov. 6, three days after the Nov. 3 election. Republicans have opposed changing that deadline.

Most states make Election Day the deadline, but 18 states — about half of which backed President Donald Trump in the 2016 election — have a post-Election Day deadline.

The court’s ruling also authorized the use of satellite election offices and drop boxes by counties.

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[mystery-ak]

This is bad news...they now have 3 extra days to find the votes they need to win..

[Wingnut]

This is not right.  Not right at all.   

[Lando Lincoln]

And the slide continues unabated.

[corbe]

   Well it is 2020, so, IMHO, we can expect this to go on longer than the 2008 Florida debacle with Roberts deciding.

[240B]

This is bad news...they now have 3 extra days to find the votes they need to win..

Exactly. They want to know the number they need to win by a few hundred votes.
Like in Florida where "finding" thousands of uncounted votes in the trunk of some car after the polls close is considered normal. I seem to remember they did this same thing in Minnesota too, to elect Stuart Smalley.

And for whatever miracle of God, the 'found' votes always are almost entirely Democrat votes, and the Election Commission always allows them to be counted. It is so transparently corrupt that it is stupid. That is why so many people overseas say that the American Election process is just silly. Because it is.

[mystery-ak]

   Well it is 2020, so, IMHO, we can expect this to go on longer than the 2008 Florida debacle with Roberts deciding.

Roberts deciding is a scary thought..why would he side with the Repubs now..

[mystery-ak]

Trump is going to need a HUGE landslide in all the states so they can't cheat...if victory is won by a couple of thousand votes, the rats will find the votes needed.

[Wingnut]

Trump is going to need a HUGE landslide in all the states so they can't cheat...if victory is won by a couple of thousand votes, the rats will find the votes needed.

To paraphrase Ron White.  " I don't know who many votes they will need to win the election, but I do know how many they are gonna use."

[Victoria33]

This is bad news...they now have 3 extra days to find the votes they need to win..

@mystery-ak

No, read it again.  A mail ballot envelope must be postmarked by the time polls close on election day.  So, no more mail ballots can be mailed after election day.  Those ballots put in the mail on election day, will be counted (if the paperwork is right).

How is that different?  Most states will not accept any mail ballots after the postman delivers the daily mail on election day.  This change by Penn., means people can MAIL their ballot on election day.  See, no one can vote by mail after election day.  The 3 days is to give those mail ballots already in the mail, enough time to get to the election department of every county, if there are some.  I doubt anyone will mail their ballot on election day unless their memory is bad and they find their ballot envelope still in the house.

Below see what happens next - it is this: The ballot they mailed on election day must get to the Board that checks mail ballot materials within 3 days of the mailing, which is Nov. 6 at 5 pm.

The official words:
"Ballots that are eligible to be counted must be postmarked by the time polls close and be received by county election boards at 5 p.m. on Nov. 6, three days after the Nov. 3 election."

[Wingnut]

@mystery-ak

No, read it again.  A mail ballot envelope must be postmarked by the time polls close on election day.  So, no more mail ballots can be mailed after election day.  Those ballots put in the mail on election day, will be counted (if the paperwork is right).

How is that different?  Most states will not accept any mail ballots after the postman delivers the daily mail on election day.  This change by Penn., means people can MAIL their ballot on election day.  See, no one can vote by mail after election day.  The 3 days is to give those mail ballots already in the mail, enough time to get to the election department of every county, if there are some.  I doubt anyone will mail their ballot on election day unless their memory is bad and they find their ballot envelope still in the house.

Below see what happens next - it is this: The ballot they mailed on election day must get to the Board that checks mail ballot materials within 3 days of the mailing, which is Nov. 6 at 5 pm.

The official words:
"Ballots that are eligible to be counted must be postmarked by the time polls close and be received by county election boards at 5 p.m. on Nov. 6, three days after the Nov. 3 election."

More pretzel logic from a Biden Voter. 

[corbe]

[mystery-ak]

The Dem's took this to the Pa Supreme Court for a reason that benefits them, if it doesn't why bother.

They have all day to get phony ballots postmarked and in the mail if they think they are behind..

[corbe]

[Victoria33]

The Dem's took this to the Pa Supreme Court for a reason that benefits them, if it doesn't why bother.
They have all day to get phony ballots postmarked and in the mail if they think they are behind..

@mystery-ak

There cannot be any fake mail ballots.  A ballot that is copied is not like the original, down to the type of paper.  Also, every real mail ballot has a number and there is no other ballot with that number.  There is a list of real ballot numbers.  It is like a polling place.  At a polling place, the Judge has the starting number and last number of ballots.  There are no two alike.

Every name on these ballot materials is checked to see if this person requested a mail ballot.  There is no way to have a mail ballot unless it was requested (except for a few states who sends them to all voters).  If there is no request, yet the person mailed a ballot (would have to be a copied ballot and be fake), it would not be counted.  This would not be true if the state mails all voters a ballot.  However, the number of every ballot is on the ballot and there are no repeated numbers, so an "extra" ballot would be found out.

Also, each Judge signs his/her name on the back of each ballot.  No name or incorrect name signed on the back, ballot not counted.

[Wingnut]

@mystery-ak

There cannot be any fake mail ballots.  A ballot that is copied is not like the original, down to the type of paper.  Also, every real mail ballot has a number and there is no other ballot with that number.  There is a list of real ballot numbers.  It is like a polling place.  At a polling place, the Judge has the starting number and last number of ballots.  There are no two alike.

You poor misguided soul. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

State Supreme Court in Pennsylvania just affirmed that Ballot harvesting remains illegal. We will be watching that the Democrats do not Ballot Harvest - a felony. In other words, the Republican Party won on the atrocious Ballot Harvesting Scam...

..Importantly, we also won on the Ballot Cure Provision. Waiting for the BIG Federal decisions in Pennsylvania, Nevada, and elsewhere!

2:12 PM · Sep 17, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306657201235415046

(Ballot curing involves sending out a letter and blank affidavit describing the reason the voter's ballot has been rejected and how they can “cure” or remedy the situation.)

[240B]

If the manufacturer of the ballots is a Democrat (very likely) and the Post Office join together (UPS has endorsed Biden), they can make as many ballots as the need. And they will all be legitimate.

Kind of like making counterfeit money with real U.S. Treasury plates, ink, and materials. In that case it is no longer counterfeit money if it is indistinguishable. In that case, you are printing real money.

[Victoria33]

@mystery-ak

Another reason fake mail ballots would be found out:
When a voter gets a mail ballot, he gets two envelopes with the ballot.  One is the outer envelope that came in the mail.  Inside that envelope is another envelope to be mailed, which holds the actual ballot envelope.  Inside that envelope, is the marked ballot.

No one would be able to fake the two envelopes that must be there, which is the outer mailing envelope that holds the actual ballot envelope.  Fill ballot out, put it in the ballot envelope, seal it, place it in the outer mail envelope and mail that envelope.   

A filled out ballot, real or not, in some kind of envelope, would never be counted.  The ballot itself MUST be in its own county envelope and sealed inside a county mailing envelope.

[Wingnut]

@mystery-ak

Another reason fake mail ballots would be found out:
When a voter gets a mail ballot, he gets two envelopes with the ballot.  One is the outer envelope that came in the mail.  Inside that envelope is another envelope to be mailed, which holds the actual ballot envelope.  Inside that envelope, is the marked ballot.

No one would be able to fake the two envelopes that must be there, which is the outer mailing envelope that holds the actual ballot envelope.  Fill ballot out, put it in the ballot envelope, seal it, place it in the outer mail envelope and mail that envelope.   

A filled out ballot, real or not, in some kind of envelope, would never be counted.  The ballot itself MUST be in its own county envelope and sealed inside a county mailing envelope.

You poor misguided soul.   

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump is going to need a HUGE landslide in all the states so they can't cheat...if victory is won by a couple of thousand votes, the rats will find the votes needed.

Yup.  POTUS has to win beyond the fraud threshold. 

This is why it is inexcusable for anyone on our side to not vote vote for the reelection of Donald Trump.  Any other action but this is telling the world his or her conscience is okay with turning this country into Venezuela.  May God have mercy on their souls.

[sneakypete]

 Proof that elections have consequences.

Unfortunately,I suspect there are few,if any,of us who will live long enough to see the Dims lose control over the northeast or the left coast.

[sneakypete]

This is bad news...they now have 3 extra days to find the votes they need to win..

@mystery-ak

And I have no doubt that if necessary,they can get the same judges to issue and emergency extension.

Remember several years ago when Philly was screaming the Republicans were rigging the ballot boxes because the Dim candidates only got something like 110 percent of the registered votes?

[sneakypete]

Roberts deciding is a scary thought..why would he side with the Repubs now..

@mystery-ak

He's not. That freaking loon and traitor Boy Jorge appointed him for reasons having NOTHING to do with conservatism. Now we see what the reasons were.

[sneakypete]

Trump is going to need a HUGE landslide in all the states so they can't cheat...if victory is won by a couple of thousand votes, the rats will find the votes needed.

@mystery-ak

Which is why I say this will be the last election before the "2nd American Revolution" begins.

I ain't happy about it because I do have some understanding of how much suffering innocent Americans will have to go through before it ends,but I honestly don't see any way to avoid it at this point.

Somebody PLEASE prove me wrong on this.