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Ms. Toad

(38,817 posts)
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 04:24 PM Nov 2020

Unfortunately the Republican legislature was in charge of changing the law -

and they refused to.

I think the court decision was reasonable, in response to the disruption of the mail/the delay in ballots arrriving/the county that got the wrong ballots. The Legislature should have passed a special exception to - but for political reasons they did not.

We always knew there was a possibility these votes woouldn't be counted - and all of the PR was to mail early and, if you couldn't, drop the ballot off personally. If I were advising the Biden team I'd say leave it alone - it doesn't change the outcome, and it is better if there is not a Supreme Court decision cementing the interpretation that legislature means strictly statutory law - not statutory law as interpreted by the PA courts.

In other words, appealing it could do more harm than good (from a long-term perspective).

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