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groundloop

(11,514 posts)
Mon Nov 23, 2020, 09:49 PM Nov 2020

Trump campaign loses 5 more cases in Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision

Source: ABC News

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Monday issued opinions rejecting five lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign aimed at invalidating 8,329 ballots cast in the 2020 presidential contest over technical concerns.

Three justices wrote in the majority that, "no allegations of fraud or illegality" came up in examination of the ballots.

"Failures to include a handwritten name, address or date in the voter declaration on the back of the outer envelope, while constituting technical violations of the Election Code, do not warrant the wholesale disenfranchisement of thousands of Pennsylvania voters," Justice Christine L. Donohue wrote for the majority.

Two other justices joined Donohue, while other members of the court issued separate opinions. In one separate opinion, Justice David N. Wecht wrote that while he agrees technically deficient ballots should be counted this year, he does not believe the absence of a date on the declaration "should be overlooked as a 'minor irregularity.'"

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-loses-cases-pennsylvania-supreme-court-decision/story?id=74367607&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_three_posts_card_hed

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Trump campaign loses 5 more cases in Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision (Original Post) groundloop Nov 2020 OP
Trump deserves nothing but public booing, from now on! dubyadiprecession Nov 2020 #1
TY PA SC!! Cha Nov 2020 #2
What kind of clown car legal buzzards lose 5 cases in a day? ResistantAmerican17 Nov 2020 #3
One's who a client like Trumpski. marble falls Nov 2020 #4
Trump is a LOSER! Paul Politerude Nov 2020 #5
I'll pay for the scarlet "L" tattoo on D'ump's foreskull😬👍 bringthePaine Nov 2020 #6
That Date In Question Is Actually Meaningless DallasNE Nov 2020 #7
Also, the county knows when they sent the ballots DeminPennswoods Nov 2020 #9
... ailsagirl Nov 2020 #8
He's trying to set another record for most LOSSES in court Maeve Nov 2020 #10
So, this is what a $20,000.00 a day lawyer gets you.... SKKY Nov 2020 #11
I am not tired of the losing yet quaker bill Nov 2020 #12

DallasNE

(7,402 posts)
7. That Date In Question Is Actually Meaningless
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 02:01 AM
Nov 2020

So it is at worst a minor irregularity. It was added to the law for the purpose of disenfranchisement.

The voter could write in any date. The post office tracks the ballots and that date is the meaningful date. The Judge should know this.

DeminPennswoods

(15,265 posts)
9. Also, the county knows when they sent the ballots
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 05:39 AM
Nov 2020

out, meaning there's a knowable window of the earliest date the envelope could have been signed along with a unique barcode on each absentee ballot envelope for each election cycle. The ballot envelope is time-stamped when it's received at the county election bureau. If an absentee ballot was sent out Oct 1 and received back Oct 15, it had to be filled out sometime in between. What specific date doesn't really matter.

SKKY

(11,797 posts)
11. So, this is what a $20,000.00 a day lawyer gets you....
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 09:42 AM
Nov 2020

...what are they now? Like, 1 - 40 something?

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