Turns out Pennsylvania Democrats are sidestepping a court ruling in the fight over Bob Casey’s Senate seat.
And not in the usual secretive way.
Bucks County officials openly decided to count unsigned provisional ballots, directly opposing a Pennsylvania Supreme Court order.
Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia admitted to ignoring the rules, claiming it’s all about making courts “pay attention.”
That reminds me of a post the President made…
“…sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels never seen before…”
And if that wasn’t clear enough, how about this one:
But go ahead, Commissioner Diane, put Trump’s warning to the test.
Because, apparently, breaking the law is the new way to uphold democracy.
Meanwhile, Dave McCormick is suing them over their decision to count undated ballots.
Democrats in PA are openly defying court rulings from the state’s Supreme Court to benefit Bob Casey.
“People violate laws any time they want,” the Bucks County Commissioner said as she cast a vote Thursday to count certain deficient provisional ballots previously barred by… pic.twitter.com/p1QeiRC7Ln
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) November 15, 2024
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick sued Philadelphia’s Board of Commissioners on Friday, the latest in a series of legal challenges he’s filed against elections officials who have voted to count undated or misdated mail ballots in defiance of orders from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The Philadelphia board — led by chair Omar Sabir, a Democrat — chose in a meeting Wednesday to include more than 600 ballots submitted by voters who’d failed to date or incorrectly dated the outer envelopes, as required by state law.
Though Democrats and voting rights groups have long argued that the date is irrelevant and is not used by elections officials to determine whether a ballot was submitted on time, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a pair of orders this fall sent a clear message to counties: Those ballots should not be counted for this election.
ADVERTISEMENTPhiladelphia, like many of the other counties that have voted to count them anyway — including Bucks, Montgomery,and Centre Counties — has defended that decision by saying excluding those ballots unfairly disenfranchises tens of thousands of otherwise eligible voters each year.
They also point to a recent Commonwealth Court ruling that concluded rejecting undated and misdated ballots constitutes a violation of the rights guaranteed to voters by the state constitution.
Shortly afterward, the Supreme Court issued an order clarifying the lower court’s ruling and mandating that it should not be applied to the 2024 election. The justices have yet to take the issue up on the merits.
In his lawsuit in Philadelphia on Friday, McCormick — joined by the Republican National Committee and the Pennsylvania GOP — asked a Common Pleas Court to overturn the board’s decision and remove undated and misdated ballots from Philadelphia’s final count.
The Democrat Bucks County Commissioners just voted to count misdated and undated mail in ballots to try and help Bob Casey and one of them straight up says that she knows it's illegal but simply does not care.
Dems are trying to steal an election in PA.pic.twitter.com/7KP4Qoy31b
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 14, 2024
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