Subject: Re: ID Cards, For What?
Dope1: But what legislation did they pass?
Umm... that was litigated all the way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court which ruled unanimously that it was perfectly lawful.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a unanimous ruling declaring that mail-in ballots cannot be rejected on the basis of signature comparison, a decision hailed as a victory by Democrats and voter rights groups.
Critics say signature analysis is a common tactic used to slow vote counting or to have ballots rejected outright. The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh had previously sued over the use of signature matching.
The Pennsylvania Department of State had issued guidelines earlier this year stating that mailed ballots should be counted as long as they contained a signature and voters provided valid identification during their ballot application process –– and without the need for comparison against matching signatures in voter registration files.
https://whyy.org/articles/pa-s...
Dope1: Admit it. The democrats played fast and loose with the rules in 2020 in an all-out effort to beat Trump.
Umm, sorry but you're wrong again.
In 2020, Republicans held a majority in the Pennsylvania state Senate (28R-21D-1I) and state House (107R-92D-4I). So republicans made the new rules with respect to voting in the 2020 election. The legislation, Act 77, passed with bipartisan majorities and was upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court:
Pennsylvania's mail-in voting law has been upheld by the state's Supreme Court, allowing all voters in the key swing state to cast ballots by mail in November and for other future elections.
In a 5-2 decision released Tuesday, the Democratic-majority court overturned a lower court's ruling from January that found Pennsylvania's Act 77 to be in violation of the state's constitution.
"We find no restriction in our Constitution on the General Assembly's ability to create universal mail-in voting," Justice Christine Donohue wrote in the majority opinion.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/02....
To recap: republicans controlled both chambers, wrote the legislation which passed with bipartisan support, and the state Supreme Court ruled it was constitutional in 2020 and future elections.
But thanks for playing.