PA Democrats Brag About Counting Illegal Ballots in Senate Race
Why is any state or county still counting ballots? I know the Pennsylvania race between incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick had to go to a recount.
The race has already been called for McCormick. He leads Casey by 29,000 votes.
Before the election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court told election officials that they cannot count undated absentee and mail-in ballots.
Bucks, Centre, and Montgomery counties, all blue counties, have ignored that order.
Not only that…election officials have been bragging about defying the court order:
“I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, said Thursday as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that should be disqualified.”People violate laws anytime they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention. There’s nothing more important than counting votes.”
Um, the court paid attention weeks ago. It is against the law, moron.
In Montgomery County, for example, officials deliberated for 30 minutes over whether about 180 provisional ballots without secrecy envelopes should be counted. The Inquirer reported that several of these votes came from the same precincts, suggesting an error made by poll workers.Democratic board chair Neil Makhija voted to accept the ballots so that voters would not be disenfranchised. But other members of the board, including one Democrat and a Republican, voted to reject the ballots on the advice of county attorneys who determined the law clearly states they should not be counted.”We’re talking about constitutional rights and I cannot take an action to throw out someone’s ballot that is validly cast, otherwise, over an issue that we know … is immaterial,” Makhija said during Thursday’s meeting. The board ultimately voted to count a total of 501 contested ballots.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said “the Senate could refuse to seat” Casey if he relied on illegal ballots to win:
“If Bob Casey doesn’t concede, Pennsylvania keeps counting illegal votes, & Casey relies on those votes to claim victory, the Senate could refuse to seat him,” Lee said in a post on X Saturday while citing Article I, Sec. 5, Cl. 1, which states that each “House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own Members.”
How about we go to in-person voting on Election Day. Move it to Saturday. This madness has to stop.
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