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PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by 9jahotblog: 9:09pm On Nov 12, 2020
A Pennsylvania judge ruled in favor of the Trump campaign Thursday, ordering that the state may not count ballots where the voters needed to provide proof of identification and failed to do so by Nov. 9.

State law said that voters have until six days after the election — this year that was Nov. 9 — to cure problems regarding a lack of proof of identification. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots could be accepted three days after Election Day, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar submitted guidance that said proof of identification could be provided up until Nov. 12, which is six days from the ballot acceptance deadline. That guidance was issued two days before Election Day.

“[T]he Court concludes that Respondent Kathy Boockvar, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Commonwealth, lacked statutory authority to issue the November 1, 2020, guidance to Respondents County Boards of Elections insofar as that guidance purported to change the deadline … for certain electors to verify proof of identification,” Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said in a court order.

READ THE COURT ORDER HERE

This was in line with the Trump campaign’s argument, which was that there was no basis in the state’s law to extend the identification deadline, and that Boockvar did not have the power to unilaterally change it.



Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar speaks during a news conference offering updates regarding the counting of ballots in the general election, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

The court had previously ordered that all ballots where voters provided proof of identification between Nov. 10 and 12 should be segregated until a ruling was issued determining what should be done with them.

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On Thursday, Leavitt ruled that those ballots shall not be counted.

This is one of several legal challenges the Trump campaign is bringing in Pennsylvania. On Friday they are scheduled to have a hearing over thousands of ballots that they claim were improperly counted despite lacking required information.

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Additionally, the campaign awaits action from the Supreme Court regarding whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court acted properly in granting the three-day extension for accepting mail-in ballots.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-court-secretary-of-state-changed-deadline.amp?__twitter_impression=true

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Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by 9jahotblog: 9:10pm On Nov 12, 2020
Nice one from Pennsylvania court of justice. more victory coming.
Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by caski: 9:10pm On Nov 12, 2020
wonderful
Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by bobo9ice: 9:13pm On Nov 12, 2020
9jahotblog:
Nice one from Pennsylvania court of justice. more victory coming.

Yes o...
2nd term is sure
Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by 9jahotblog: 9:17pm On Nov 12, 2020
bobo9ice:

Yes o... 2nd term is sure
Yes. trump wins Pennsylvania and other swing states.
Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by bobo9ice: 9:55pm On Nov 12, 2020
9jahotblog:
Yes. trump wins Pennsylvania and other swing states.

For real?
Haven't heard or seen that news o
Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by Ibadansun1: 10:05pm On Nov 12, 2020
Those ballots were segregated and were never counted according to your Fox news report.

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Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by Kyase(m): 10:40pm On Nov 12, 2020
This na masturbating thread, make I dey go leave them dey deceive themselves grin

Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by grandlexuz(m): 11:16pm On Nov 12, 2020
Even as Foxnews tries to satisfy Trump with misleading headlines, Trump has lost faith in them and might likely set up Trump TV during retirement. Trump the sore loser is already out. The cured votes in question are less than 112 and had been segregated. These votes of people who voted on time but their votes couldnt be validated cos of ID issues.

You need to validate your mail vote with your ID up to 7 days after the election. The secretary added two more to match up with the 3 days mail extention of the Supreme court. The could be either for Biden or Trump but mostly likely Biden. The dont affect the current count of 54K+ votes for Biden.

The biggest court case in Pensylvania is that of ballots that arrived 3 days after the election but post marked on or before election day. In some States ballots can arrive even a week later. In Pennsylvania it was newly approved before the election and confirmed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to help with the postal delays.

Now even if Trumpy's Supreme Court decides the law wasnt valid which is highly unlikely the votes in question are less than 10K and will still put Biden 44K+ considering all of them were cast for Biden. Trump the sore loser has no path to victory.

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Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by grandlexuz(m): 11:24pm On Nov 12, 2020
bobo9ice:


For real?
Haven't heard or seen that news o

Sarcasm that was.

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Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by bobo9ice: 2:22am On Nov 13, 2020
grandlexuz:


Sarcasm that was.

..and so shall it be in Jesus Name, Amen!

Re: PA Court: Secretary Lacked Authority To Change Deadline Before Election by tobechi74: 3:42am On Nov 13, 2020
Sad

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