A state appellate court judge in Pennsylvania ruled in favor of President Trump on Thursday, declaring that Democratic Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar lacked authority to extend a deadline for first-time vote-by-mail participants to show their ID.
As The Philadelphia Inquirer reported:
A Pennsylvania appellate court handed President Donald Trump’s campaign a minor victory Thursday, barring counties from including in their final vote tallies a small pool of mail ballots from people who had failed to provide required ID by a Monday deadline.
In a two-page order, a Commonwealth Court judge struck down a decision by the Wolf administration to give voters more time, post-election, to fulfill the ID requirement.
Though state law only requires first-time voters to show ID at the polls, all voters who applied to vote by mail had to be validated [sic] their identification against state records by Nov. 9.
Breitbart.com reports: Boockvar had extended the deadline to Nov. 12, adding a three-day extension after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided in a separate case that mail-in ballots could be received up to three days after Election Day.
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That change was upheld in a 4-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The number of ballots affected by Thursday’s decision — which were sequestered and not counted — is likely small.
However, Republicans believe Thursday’s ruling could help if the Supreme Court resists the issue, because the state judge found that Boockvar acted without authority from the state legislature.
Republicans point out that the Constitution says that election rules are in the hands of state legislatures. It does not say that state courts may change state laws about voting procedure.
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That’s the latest rage To just overnight change laws to suit politicians corruptions . Its the new “democracy”. They’re ew all in it together. Anyhow Pimpeo ‘s on you tube addressing some, obvious, mob journos, shaking his head blatantly in the negative whilst smugly smirking and informing them that Trump will make a smooth transition to his second term by January. Legally Trump should be and despite Pimpeo its possible he actually might be Despite all of them and the whole obvious bribery going down globally to make key corrupt people carry on with the stealelecton operation
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What would prevent the states from changing the election day to Biden’s birthday?