We have been told, ever since the election of 2020, that no, of course not, there are no attempts to cheat on election results or vote counting!

Pa. Supreme Court again rules that Philly and other counties cannot count undated mail ballots

The ruling comes after several Philly-area counties defied the court’s previous guidance. The issue has come under close scrutiny as the race between Bob Casey and Dave McCormick undergoes a recount.

by Sean Collins Walsh, Gillian McGoldrick, and Fallon Roth | Monday, November 18, 2024 | 4:30 PM EST

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday issued a ruling reiterating its previous stance that undated or misdated mail ballots should not be counted in the 2024 election, dealing a blow to Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey’s hopes that a recount and litigation will help him overcome his just over 17,000-vote deficit to Republican Dave McCormick as of Monday evening.

The 4-3 ruling, which was requested by the Republican Party and opposed by Casey’s campaign, followed moves by elections officials in Democratic-controlled counties — including Philadelphia, Bucks, and Montgomery — to have the ballots counted despite the high court instructing them to exclude those votes earlier in the year. The ruling applies to all counties.

Note what even the hard-left Philadelphia Inquirer said: that these attempts to circumvent the law were “moves by elections officials in Democratic-controlled counties,” in counties in which the Democratic incumbent would have been more probably to be favored.

Democrats in those counties and elsewhere have pushed to include mail ballots with defects related to the dates voters are required to write on them because the dates are not used by election administrators to determine whether ballots are legitimate. Instead, they only count ballots that are received between when the ballots are distributed and Election Day, making it impossible for a vote to be counted outside of that time frame regardless of what date a voter writes on the ballot.

Republicans have argued that those votes must be excluded from the count because state law requires voters to date their mail ballots. McCormick’s campaign joined the GOP lawsuit after it was filed.

Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) finally spoke out, saying that the counties had to do something really radical like actually follow the law.

I have often said that the huge surge in ballots for Joe Biden in 2020 was the result of widespread mail-in balloting, brought about by the serious overreaction to the COVID-19 panicdemic. And no, that’s not a typographical error: the spelling of ‘panicdemic’ accurately reflects how I saw the whole thing. As the Inquirer’s graph to the left shows, Mr McCormick easily carried election day voting, but Senator Casey has a huge advantage in mail-in and ‘provisional’ ballots. That’s why election officials in Democrat-run counties are hoping that they can fabricate find enough votes for Mr Casey to give him a slight victory.

The total number of ballots in question is likely well under 10,000 and would not be enough to erase Casey’s deficit alone. But the three-term incumbent is also in legal fights with McCormick’s team over how various counties have handled certain categories of provisional ballots across the state.

“(L)ikely well under 10,000,” huh? Not if the Democrats can find ways to fabricate more!

I remember how our friends on the left bitterly complained about President Trump’s legal actions concerning ballots in 2020. Their hypocrisy is noted. That they will cheat if at all possible is very likely.