Pennsylvania court strikes down expansive mail-in voting law

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A statewide court says Pennsylvania’s expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting.

A statewide court declared Friday that Pennsylvania's expansive two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, agreeing with challenges by Republicans who soured on mail-in voting after then-President Donald Trump began baselessly attacking it as rife with fraud in 2020's campaign.

Just over 2.5 million people voted under the law's expansion of mail-in voting in 2020′s presidential election, most of them Democrats, out of 6.9 million total cast."Big news out of Pennsylvania, great patriotic spirit is developing at a level that nobody thought possible. Make America Great Again!" he said in a statement through his political action committee.

Pennsylvania's attorney general, Josh Shapiro, said in a statement the opinion will be immediately appealed and will not have any immediate impact on Pennsylvania’s upcoming elections. Every Republican lawmaker, except one, voted for the bill in a deal with Wolf, who had sought the mail-in voting provision. In exchange, Wolf agreed to get rid of the straight-ticket voting option that Republicans had sought as a way to protect their suburban candidates from an anti-Trump wave in 2020's election.

 

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It is a computer 🖥️🖥️🖥️ world now 2022. People vote's should be counted regardless on whom they vote for.

It is unconstitutional. People's vote's aren't being counted.

Q: If Act is unconstitutional in PA now, how could unchecked mail-in balloting have been constitutional in the rigged 2020 election there? A: It wasn't.

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