Pennsylvania Court: Mail-In Voting Law Unconstitutional

NEWSMAX 28 Jan 2022

Pennsylvania Court: Mail-In Voting Law Unconstitutional

Election workers count mail-in ballots at the Philadelphia Convention Center on Nov. 6, 2020.  (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

A statewide court on Friday declared that Pennsylvania’s expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans.

The decision, by a five-judge Commonwealth Court panel of three Republicans and two Democrats, would be put on hold immediately if Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration files an appeal to the state Supreme Court as promised.

“The Administration will immediately appeal this decision to the state Supreme Court and today’s lower court ruling will have no immediate effect on mail-in voting pending a final decision on the appeal,” Wolf’s office said in a statement.

Still, the decision throws Pennsylvania’s voting laws into doubt as the presidential battleground state’s voters prepare to elect a new governor and a new U.S. senator in 2022.

Just over 2.5 million people voted under the law’s expansion of mail-in voting in 2020?s presidential election, most of them Democrats, out of 6.9 million total cast.

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  1. Judge considers releasing expert report on Dominion voting machines in Georgia

    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger supports the public release of the report to dispel “misleading media articles.”
    By Just the News staff

    Updated: January 30, 2022 – 9:08am

    A federal judge is considering whether to release a sealed report by a computer security expert who reviewed Dominion Voting Systems equipment after Georgia’s top election official and its governor urged action.

    The report was conducted by University of Michigan computer security expert J. Alex Halderman and was filed last summer under seal in a federal court case that alleges hackers had “the capability” and “easy access” to voting machines in Georgia, according to the Epoch Times.

    Little has been released in public about the report though the Atlanta Constitution-Journal has reported it found hackers could change votes if they penetrated the machines.

    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a defendant in the lawsuit, announced last week he now supports the public release of the report to dispel “misleading media articles about the Dominion voting equipment used in Georgia.”

    …

    U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg, who is presiding over the civil case, said she is reviewing the report with redactions and will decide whether to release it.

    Directly related to these facts, Tore Maras-Lindeman, of ToreSays, ShadowGate and the Kraken affidavit, has pursued a two branch approach to introduce the contents of Haldermann’s testimony into her defamation lawsuit against Dominion regarding the claims attested to Sidney Powell in Tore’s Kraken affidavit. Tore has directly subpoenaed Halderman and she has also subpoenaed his sealed affidavid from Judge Totenberg. Totenberg has ignored the subpoena regarding the sealed affidavit and so Tore’s lawyer followed up by filing a motion for Totenberg to show cause for initially sealing Halderman’s affidavit. As Tore notes, this places

    Fed Judge vs Fed Judge and Halderman vs Subpoena.

    The Halderman affidavit is believe to contain highly sensitive expert testimony of existing breaches to the election process which Halderman is prohibited from even raising to the responsible govt agencies to fix due to the seal on the case before Totenberg.

  2. Must watch trailer for D’Souza’s latest video:
    http://2000mules.com/

    From Kanekoa The Great

    True The Vote has spent the last several months since late last year collecting more than 27 terabytes of geospatial and temporal data—a total of 10 trillion cell phone pings—between Oct. 1 and Nov. 6 in targeted areas in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

    The data includes geofenced points of interest like ballot dropbox locations, as well as UPS stores and select government, commercial, and non-governmental organization (NGO) facilities.

    “From this we have thus far developed precise patterns of life for 242 suspected ballot traffickers in Georgia and 202 traffickers in Arizona,” True The Vote’s document says.

    “According to the data, each trafficker went to an average of 23 ballot dropboxes.”

    In other words, what the document says is that True The Vote was able to take cell phone ping data on a mass wide scale and piece together that several people—suspected ballot harvesters—were making multiple trips to multiple drop boxes, raising potential legal questions in a number of these states.

    From there, True The Vote gathered surveillance video on the drop boxes in Georgia and is attempting to gather similar such surveillance video from other states.

    The document states that True The Vote has obtained one full petabyte of surveillance footage on drop boxes—two million minutes of video—which it says is broken into 73,000 individual video files.

    The group is expected to begin releasing some of these videos, which purportedly show the same people going multiple times to the same drop boxes, in the coming weeks.

    “We are building out video stories and have compiled videos of individuals stuffing ballot dropboxes with stacks of ballots, individuals depositing ballots in multiple dropboxes, unauthorized coordination between government workers engaged in the exchange of ballots, and several other tranches of video that capture unusual patterns such as the wearing of gloves to deposit ballots, taking pictures of ballot deposits, etc.,” True The Vote’s document says.

  3. No way this survives the PA Supreme Court which is crooked as they come. It has a 5-2 Dem to Rep split and I wouldn’t count on the two Reps.

  4. Wait. This was a panel? I looked up the Commonwealth Court and it has nine judges not five. How was the panel chosen? Will this be dismissed as partisan?

    The good news is that this is specifically the court that deals with elections.

    Election Court
    The Commonwealth Court has jurisdiction to hear objections to nomination petitions and papers for statewide office.

    https://www.pacourts.us/courts/commonwealth-court

    It was created in 1968.

  5. Biden still has control of Congress barring defections and the US Supreme Court , including the conservatives, still have reason to be fearful that Biden will pack the court.

  6. And if the Pennsylvania Court hears the case and rejects, what is the likelihood that the US Supreme Court will hear the case when it refused to do so before?
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/19/supreme-court-rejects-pennsylvania-2020-election-c/

    Is something different in the presentation that will keep it from being sidelined due to “lack of standing” or some other technicality?

    It’s interesting how the concept of standing and it’s relevance was used by the judiciary left in opposite ways in Israel and the US with the same effect. One of Aharon Barak’s key reforms was to eliminate the obstacle of standing in any case or law in which the court wished to intervene.

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  7. “The Administration will immediately appeal this decision to the state Supreme Court”

    Sigh.

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Saturday rejected an election challenge spearheaded by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, who argued that a law permitting no-excuse mail voting violated the state Constitution.Nov. 28, 2020, 7:57 PM EST

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/pennsylvania-high-court-throws-out-challenge-mail-ballots-n1249240

    This Commonwealth Court had 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats. Did they vote or was the decision unanimous? Is there any reason to believe the State Supreme Court will reverse itself on a matter on which it has already ruled on account of a lower court decision?