Periodically I post articles that I do not understand. This is one of them. I am posting it because I think it is an important step to end some of the problems that we have had in recent elections.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, The Epoch Times<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n The Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated an appeals court decision that required\u00a0Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots<\/a> even if there is no date on the envelope.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit with instructions to dismiss the case as moot,\u201d wrote\u00a0Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson (pdf<\/a>), siding with David Ritter, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for a judgeship.<\/strong><\/p>\n They also threw out a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals\u2019 ruling that allowed the counting of mail-in ballots in the race that Ritter had sought to remove because voters did not write the date on the ballots. Ritter lost his 2021 bid to serve on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas\u00a0after 257 mail-in ballots<\/a> that didn\u2019t have dates were counted.<\/strong><\/p>\n Pennsylvania Republican legislators and conservatives filed amicus briefs saying the 3rd Circuit\u2019s ruling threatened the integrity of the 2022 midterm elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n But the Supreme Court\u2019s action on Tuesday means that the 3rd Circuit ruling cannot be used as a precedent in the three states covered by this regional federal appellate court\u2014Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware\u2014to allow the counting of ballots with minor flaws such as the voter failing to fill in the date. Vacating the ruling does not change Ritter\u2019s loss in his race.<\/strong><\/p>\n Please follow the link above to read the entire article.<\/p>\n In the months preceding the 2020 election, many states altered their voting laws because of the fear generated during the Covid pandemic. Many of those laws were changed in ways that were not in compliance with the constitutions of their state. A number of court cases since the election (and some before the election) have reversed those changes and required the states involved to follow their own constitutions.<\/p>\n UPDATE:\u00a0 Pennsylvania says it will ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling (article here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Periodically I post articles that I do not understand. This is one of them. I am posting it because I think it is an important step to end some of the problems that we have had in recent elections. On … Continue reading