With a finger tap, Americans can chat with friends almost anywhere on Earth, but they can’t be certain their elections are legit.
Technology is useless without integrity, and the process that put bungling Biden in the White House has been a study in incidents in which the great American ballot has been folded, spindled and mutilated.
Fortunately, efforts are underway to fix flawed election procedures in key battleground states, lending hope that the debacle of 2020 will not be repeated.
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled Friday that Act 77, a 2019 law instituting no-excuse mail-in voting, is unconstitutional.
Naturally, the five-judge panel broke along party lines, with three Republicans voting to strike down the law and two DEMOCRATS dissenting.
Based on the commonwealth’s Constitution, the case is open and shut: “The Pennsylvania Constitution requires a qualified elector to present her ballot in person at a designated polling place on Election Day, except where she meets one of the constitutional exceptions for absentee voting,” read the ruling.
No-excuse voting by mail, however well-intentioned, is the antithesis of “in-person” balloting.
Of course, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a DEMOCRAT, immediately announced an appeal of the ruling to the commonwealth’s Supreme Court, where a 5-2 DEMOCRAT majority will likely void the lower court’s decision and re-institute the unconstitutional law that Wolf himself signed in 2019.
The case could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court — if the justices don’t hide from controversy beneath their bench.
Discuss.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/feb/1/editorial-a-constitutional-claim-for-clean-electio/