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We have secured three major victories for election integrity in Pennsylvania just this week: we won extended early voting in Bucks County; we won signature verification and observer access in Erie County; and we won — for the fifth time — the dated ballot case in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court,
spokeswoman Claire Zunk said
In Pennsylvania and across the country, Trump and his allies are trying to make it harder for your vote to count, but our institutions are stronger than his shameful attacks. [This] decision confirms that, for every eligible voter, the right to vote means the right to have your vote counted.”
Harris campaign spokesperson Michael Tyler and Democratic National Committee spokesperson Rosemary Boeglin said in a joint statement after the Supreme Court acted
We could not prevent the consequences [the Republicans] fear,
Alito wroteI did not expect the line to be this long. But I'm going to stick it out."
Nakesha McGuirk, 44, a Democrat from Bensalem, sized up the line and said
I figured that rather than run into the risk of not getting home in time to go and vote, that it would be better to just do it this way early,
said McGuirk, a Harris supporterI just want to make sure I get my ballot in and it's counted,
said Lonieski, 62, who was joined by his 18-year-old son, voting for the first timeThe lower court's judgment concerns just two votes in the long-completed Pennsylvania primary,
read the opinion by Alito, who was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch
You could at least look [judges] in the eye and say, ‘look. I'm not asking you to change the result of the election, I'm asking you to address the rules, which is what we tried to do before,’
McCarthy said
I think we're going to have a lot of litigation, but I would be surprised if we have any jugular hits,
Turley said
Counting Electors’ provisional ballots, when their mail ballots are void for failing to use a Secrecy Envelope, is a statutory right,
state Supreme Court Justice Christine Donohue wrote in the majority opinion,
In the five presidential elections I've covered, I don't think any pre-election challenge had a huge impact,
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News Digital in a recent interviewApplicants, advancing a divergent interpretation of state law, asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to take the case and decide it before the 2024 General Election,
they wroteThe actual provisional ballots contain no identifying information, only a vote,
the GOP's lawyers wroteThat question is whether the Pennsylvania Constitution’s Free and Equal Elections Clause ... prohibits county boards of elections from refusing to count eligible voters’ timely received mail ballots solely because a voter did not correctly date the ballot-return envelope — a date that serves no purpose because a ballot’s timeliness is determined by when county officials scan it upon receipt,
the DNC saidThis case presents a question of 'substantial public importance,'
attorneys for the DNC wrote in a court filing on Friday in the case, known as RNC v. BaxterThe arguments that were being made in court were inconsistent with each other and there was a sense that they were throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what stuck. It was not difficult for courts to say, where’s the evidence, right?”
Persily said
[H ... H]ear me on this: we will again have a free and fair, safe and secure election — and the will of the people will be respected,
posted Shapiro, a DemocratThis is suppressive and intimidating,
Blair wrote on X in a post seen by 1.8 million people.jpg)
Why are they doing this?”
Elon Musk, the owner of X and a Trump supporter, repliedPennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before. REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW
the former president wrote