ROFLMAO The Court system DOES not have the Constitutional authority change election laws you moron.
41. Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes,with a statewide vote tally currently estimated at3,363,951 for President Trump and 3,445,548 forformer Vice President Biden, a margin of 81,597 votes.
42. The number of votes affected by thevarious constitutional violations exceeds the marginof votes separating the candidates.
43. Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State, KathyBoockvar, without legislative approval, unilaterallyabrogated several Pennsylvania statutes requiringsignature verification for absentee or mail-in ballots.Pennsylvania’s legislature has not ratified thesechanges, and the legislation did not include aseverability clause.
44. On August 7, 2020, the League of WomenVoters of Pennsylvania and others filed a complaintagainst Secretary Boockvar and other local electionofficials, seeking “a declaratory judgment thatPennsylvania existing signature verificationprocedures for mail-in voting” were unlawful for anumber of reasons. League of Women Voters ofPennsylvania v. Boockvar, No. 2:20-cv-03850-PBT,(E.D. Pa. Aug. 7, 2020).
45. The Pennsylvania Department of Statequickly settled with the plaintiffs, issuing revisedguidance on September 11, 2020, stating in relevantpart: “The Pennsylvania Election Code does not 15authorize the county board of elections to set asidereturned absentee or mail-in ballots based solely onsignature analysis by the county board of elections.”
46. This guidance is contrary toPennsylvania law. First, Pennsylvania Election Codemandates that, for non-disabled and non-militaryvoters, all applications for an absentee or mail-inballot “shall be signed by the applicant.” 25 PA. STAT.§§ 3146.2(d) & 3150.12(c). Second, Pennsylvania’svoter signature verification requirements areexpressly set forth at 25 PA. STAT. 350(a.3)(1)-(2) and§ 3146.8(g)(3)-(7).
47. The Pennsylvania Department of State’sguidance unconstitutionally did away withPennsylvania’s statutory signature verificationrequirements. Approximately 70 percent of therequests for absentee ballots were from Democratsand 25 percent from Republicans. Thus, thisunconstitutional abrogation of state election lawgreatly inured to former Vice President Biden’sbenefit.
48. In addition, in 2019, Pennsylvania’slegislature enacted bipartisan election reforms, 2019Pa. Legis. Serv. Act 2019-77, that set inter alia adeadline of 8:00 p.m. on election day for a countyboard of elections to receive a mail-in ballot. 25 PA.STAT. §§ 3146.6(c), 3150.16(c). Acting under agenerally worded clause that “Elections shall be freeand equal,” PA. CONST. art. I, § 5, cl. 1, a 4-3 majorityof Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court in Pa. DemocraticParty v. Boockvar, 238 A.3d 345 (Pa. 2020), extendedthat deadline to three days after Election Day andadopted a presumption that even non-postmarkedballots were presumptively timely.1649. Pennsylvania’s election law also requiresthat poll-watchers be granted access to the opening,counting, and recording of absentee ballots: “Watchersshall be permitted to be present when the envelopescontaining official absentee ballots and mail-in ballotsare opened and when such ballots are counted andrecorded.” 25 PA. STAT. § 3146.8(b). Local electionofficials in Philadelphia and Allegheny Countiesdecided not to follow 25 PA. STAT. § 3146.8(b) for theopening, counting, and recording of absentee andmail-in ballots.
50. Prior to the election, Secretary Boockvarsent an email to local election officials urging them toprovide opportunities for various persons—includingpolitical parties—to contact voters to “cure” defectivemail-in ballots. This process clearly violated severalprovisions of the state election code.• Section 3146.8(a) requires: “The county boards ofelection, upon receipt of official absentee ballots insealed official absentee ballot envelopes asprovided under this article and mail-in ballots asin sealed official mail-in ballot envelopes asprovided under Article XIII-D,1 shall safely keepthe ballots in sealed or locked containers untilthey are to be canvassed by the county board ofelections.”• Section 3146.8(g)(1)(ii) provides that mail-inballots shall be canvassed (if they are received byeight o’clock p.m. on election day) in the mannerprescribed by this subsection.• Section 3146.8(g)(1.1) provides that the first lookat the ballots shall be “no earlier than seveno’clock a.m. on election day.” And the hour for this“pre-canvas” must be publicly announced at least 1748 hours in advance. Then the votes are countedon election day.
51. By removing the ballots for examinationprior to seven o’clock a.m. on election day, SecretaryBoockvar created a system whereby local officialscould review ballots without the properannouncements, observation, and security. Thisentire scheme, which was only followed in Democratmajority counties, was blatantly illegal in that itpermitted the illegal removal of ballots from theirlocked containers prematurely.
52. Statewide election officials and localelection officials in Philadelphia and AlleghenyCounties, aware of the historical Democrat advantagein those counties, violated Pennsylvania’s electioncode and adopted the differential standards favoringvoters in Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties withthe intent to favor former Vice President Biden. SeeVerified Complaint (Doc. No. 1), Donald J. Trump forPresident, Inc. v. Boockvar, 4:20-cv-02078-MWB (M.D.Pa. Nov. 18, 2020) at ¶¶ 3-6, 9, 11, 100-143.
53. Absentee and mail-in ballots inPennsylvania were thus evaluated under an illegalstandard regarding signature verification. It is nowimpossible to determine which ballots were properlycast and which ballots were not.
54. The changed process allowing the curingof absentee and mail-in ballots in Allegheny andPhiladelphia counties is a separate basis resulting inan unknown number of ballots being treated in anunconstitutional manner inconsistent withPennsylvania statute. Id.
