Josh Shapiro Makes Excuses For Counties Counting Invalid Ballots
Brianna Lyman
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro lied about election law on Monday night to try to excuse the behavior of Democrat election commissioners who expressly stated their intent to violate the law and flout the state Supreme Court when they decided to count invalid ballots.
Bucks County was one of several counties that decided to count mail-in ballots that were misdated or undated despite the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling those ballots were not to be counted under state law.
The decision set off a flurry of lawsuits by Republicans. Rather than act swiftly to uphold the rule of law and integrity of the election, Shapiro waited days to release a statement about the decision of Democrats to count invalid ballots to try to sway the race for incumbent Sen. Bob Casey, who lost re-election to Sen.-elect Dave McCormick.
“As counties continued counting ballots from the 2024 general election and a mandatory statewide recount begins in the U.S. Senate race, they were confronted with a lack of legal clarity surrounding undated mail-in ballots that caused significant confusion and put counties in a challenging legal position,” Shapiro said in a statement.
“Given this lack of clarity, county officials in each of our 67 counties were damned if they did and damned if they didn’t — likely facing legal action no matter which decision they made on counting,” Shapiro continued.
But there was no “lack of clarity.” In fact, Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia admitted such on Thursday when she declared she would willfully violate the law because “precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore” and because she wanted “a court to pay attention to it.”
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