U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and congressional candidate Sena Parnell filed an emergency request to the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday seeking an appeal of the state Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss their attempt to invalidate absentee voting and block the certification of votes.
The two filed the request asking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for an injunction blocking Gov. Tom Wolf and Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar from futher certifying the results of the 2020 election.
On Saturday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Kelly and his allies were far too late in filing their lawsuit seeking to invalidate all votes cast by mail or direct the majority-Republican legislature to choose a slate of presidential electors as it challenged a year-old law that established new absentee voting procedures and came weeks after Pennsylvanians voted.
Wolf and Boockvar certified the statewide election results last week for the general election showing President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris leading President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence — who have issued a number of legal challenges in Pennsylvania and other key states — by a margin of 80,555 votes to earn the state’s 20 electoral votes.
Kelly and Parnell told Pennsylvania news station KDKA that while Act 77, which permitted no-excuse mail-in voting, is a state issue, federal issues of due process make it worthy of a U.S. Supreme Court appeal.
“While we believe that Act 77 is certainly a state issue, we do believe that there are very important federal questions nested within it,” said Parnell. “So what we’re doing is we’re looking to appeal to the Supreme Court on those federal questions.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued a statement supporting the appeal, saying it “raises serious legal issues.”
“Ordinarily, the U.S. Supreme Court would stay out of election disputes, especially concerning state law. But these are not ordinary times,” said Cruz.
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It seemed like it took forever but an election case has finally gotten through the court process to the Supreme Court. It’s still not exactly election fraud but it is about the mail ballots.
I hope the attorneys have done a good job.
I have lost any faith, that the scotus is our savior here…
The Democrat Judges and RINO Judges are worthless and they help destroy our society.
The offending states should be found guilty of election fraud, just like the southern states were found guilty of racism in the 60s and federally supervised on national elections for the next 40 years just like the South was. Supervision should prohibit mail-in voting and require picture IDs before a vote can be cast and considered valid. Absentee ballots should only be allowed for the military and people over 65 and requested not shot gunned in the mail to infinity.
If time travel was real, i’d go back to the 1940s, and right after WW2 ended, make an AMENDING to the 13th amendment (which is where voting is described as a right for the first time, iirc), and EDIT IT TO CLEAN AS DAY SAY
A) When someone registers to vote, they MUST provide proof of citizenship to do so.
B) when they register, they are given a registration card, which MUST be presented, along with VALID PHOTO id, at time they vote.
C) ONLY MILITARY personnel stationed out of their home state, or overseas, are EVER ALLOWED to vote, Absentee ballot wise. ALL OTHER People, vote in person, or not at all.
D) EVERY 10 years, between the times of the census, EVERY STATE IS MANDATED to do a validation of their voter rolls, by sending out messages to every registered voter, to REVERIFY that they are still there, etc. ANY ONE WHO does not verify, gets removed from the rolls. ANY state refusing to do this mandated verification, loses ALL SEATS in the house of representation, AND ALL federal funding, until such a time as they have FULLY complied.
E) Every mortuary, morgue and funeral home, WILL BE LINKED to every states election board, so ANYONE WHO DIES< gets immediately and VERIFIED removed from the voting rolls.