Pennsylvania Republicans eye more voter referendums to get around Gov. Tom Wolf's veto pen

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Using their gerrymandered majorities, Pennsylvania GOP is increasingly looking to constitutional amendments as a way to get around Dem Gov. Tom Wolf's veto for measures to make voting more restrictive. Makes the stakes of the 2022 elections even higher

Pennsylvania Republicans eye more voter referendums to get around Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto pen
A governor cannot block a ballot question to change the constitution from going to voters.
inquirer.com
9:06 AM · Jun 15, 2021

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-gop-republicans-referendums-wolf-vetoes-20210614.html

HARRISBURG — Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Legislature are increasingly looking to voter referendums to get around Gov. Tom Wolf and make policy that the Democrat cannot block with his veto pen.

On Friday, Republicans unveiled a proposed constitutional amendment to expand Pennsylvania’s existing voter identification requirements, both for in-person voting and for mail ballots. Republicans also plan to introduce another proposal for a statewide referendum to repeal Pennsylvania’s expansive mail voting law that passed in 2019 with near-unanimous support from Republicans.

Both have also been introduced as legislation, and Wolf has vowed to oppose both, seeing them as attacks on voting access spurred by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election.

“So the governor’s going to veto that,” one of the sponsors, State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin), told the audience Friday at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, an annual conservative gathering. ”Aha! But the lesson from last year was we’ll then do a ballot question and I think any issue of how our election is conducted in Pennsylvania should be your decision in the end.”

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[PortTack]

1. Constitutional amendment...sure.

Two things
If the amendment has to do with voter suppression that will be overturned. You can’t amend away what’s in the US constitution. Voting is a civil right given to every citizen..see the 14th and 15th amendment.

Constitutional amendments even at a state level very seldom pass

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2. Mastriano can go fuck himself

Why isn't he in jail?