It looks like a sound analysis, and furthermore, indicates that the Trump campaign understood and anticipated the shenanigans in Pennsylvania. This, along with the way that the usual shenanigans in Florida were shut down, suggests that the other shenanigans in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin were also anticipated.
The President losing PA is not one of the Woes being Contemplated by
Alexander Macris:
If
you’ve been following the mainstream media, you’ve probably read that Trump
intends to file a lawsuit in Pennsylvania to “stop counting votes.” Most
likely, this has been presented as an outrageous evil, unjustifiable by any standards
of common decency, and grossly unconstitutional. Is that really the case? Or is
it more complex than that?
There will be a lawsuit, no doubt;
and it will involve a lot of votes being thrown out. The plaintiff (Trump
and/or the Republicans) will win, because Pennsylvania’s highest court has
almost certainly violated the Constitution of the United States. That’s why, in
the weeks ahead, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is going to
rule in favor of Trump....
In 2019, the PA legislature passed a
law called Act 77 that permitted all voters to cast their ballots by mail but
(in Justice Alito’s words) “unambiguously required that all mailed ballots be
received by 8 p.m. on election day.” The exact text is 2019 Pa. Leg. Serv. Act
2019-77, which stated: “No absentee ballot under this subsection shall be
counted which is received in the office of the county board of elections later
than eight o'clock P.M. on the day of the primary or election.” I agree with
Justice Alito: That is unambiguous.
Act 77 also provided that if this
portion of the law was invalidated, that much of the rest of Act 77, including
its liberalization of mail-in voting, would also be void. The exact text is:
“Sections 1, 2, 3, 3.2, 4, 5, 5.1, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 of this act are
nonseverable. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or
circumstance is held invalid, the remaining provisions or applications of this
act are void.”
To again put this into common
English, the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law that said mail-in ballots
had to arrive by 8PM on election day to be counted, and then said that if the
Court over-ruled that law, the entire law that permitted mail-in ballots was
invalid.
In the face of this clear text, the
Pennsylvania Supreme Court, by a vote of four to three, made the following
decrees, summarized here by SCOTUS:
1. Mailed
ballots don’t need to be received by a election day. Instead, ballots can be
accepted if they are postmarked on or before election day and are received
within three days thereafter. Note that this is directly contravenes the text
above.
2. A
mailed ballot with no postmark, or an illegible postmark, must be regarded as
timely if it is received by that same date.
In
doing so, PAs’ high court expressly acknowledged that “the statutory provision
mandating receipt by election day was unambiguous” and conceded the law was
“constitutional,” but still re-wrote the law because it thought it needed to do
so in the face of a “natural disaster.” It justified its right to do so under
the Free and Equal Elections Cause of the PA State Constitution.
It looks like a sound analysis, and furthermore, indicates that
the Trump campaign understood and anticipated the shenanigans in Pennsylvania.
This, along with the way that the usual shenanigans in Florida were shut down,
suggests that the other shenanigans in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin were also anticipated.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/11/why-trump-will-win-pa.html