Now the bad news: it was a 4-4 tie, upholding the lower court’s ruling. Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito are now all on the record for trying not to count all the votes.
That does not bode well.
Potentially worse, if a case ends in a 4-4 tie, the court can rehear the same case once it has a 9th justice. So possibly they could rehear with ACB.
If they vote 5-4 to overturn, they might be able to still kick out those ballots. Unclear if they could do that after PA certifies or what would happen if those votes are not segregated. But maybe PA waits to certify and does segregate those votes so that they could toss them all out after the fact.
I looked up the early voting locations on my county’s supervisor of elections site. The address listed is correct, but the google link uses the latitude and longitude directly in front of the county’s Republican headquarters .4 miles away rather than the address.
Probably just a coincidence, right?
hmmm
Something is not clear in the article to me, are they going to wipe out the votes of a bunch of people based on some old list of felons that have fines, or do they have some evidence that there are specific felons that have fines, registered, and voted?
They’re just going to wipe out a lot of votes and let you figure it out assuming you won’t bother.
We have cleared a bunch of the felons’ fees, and they should be properly registered to vote. If they weren’t registered then they wouldn’t be on the voting roles and would have to fill out a provisional ballot if they still wanted to cast a vote, so there is something about this that I’m not understanding or that the article doesn’t make clear. If the state is going to eliminate the votes of the people for whom we paid fines and were properly registered, I imagine there will be a lot of us taking to the streets. I’ve personally donated substantial amounts of money and time paying fines and doing research into the criminal records of ex felons to make sure we have identified all outstanding debts so they can legally vote.
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Here’s my reading of the article.
The state Division of Elections will be making a judgement on who to pass on to purge because, “[t]he law requires the department to review information from a number of sources and make an initial determination as to whether the information is credible and reliable.”
They acknowedge that that may or may not be 100% accurate because they say they will demand the purging of those “whose potential ineligibility is based on not having satisfied the legal financial obligations of their sentence.”
So it’s all about what information the Division of Elections deems to be “credible and reliable.” Which, given there doesn’t seem to be any actual way to reliably find out, doesn’t sound good.
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We have been using the clerk of court website records and in a few instances I have had to request the documents to read a restitution order that wasn’t accessible online. The online records may be inaccurate, but that’s the best we have.
I would think the number of convicted felons who would want to risk catching another felony charge by merely voting has to be in the low single digits right?
Worrying. Better void all the early votes made so far just to be safe.
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So where one person commented that was is Northeast Philly, right near the line with a suburban county. Across the line is PA-01 which went super close to the GOP in '18. Like by 0.4% or something.
I posted this earlier, but deleted it because a lot of people are replying questioning if it’s real. I assume if this happens more than one day in a row the media will be all over it.
You wonder why the guy would have no photos or video.
Redacted for privacy.
Not sure where this should go but NYC finest.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1320219210467991552?s=20
Same police different view.
https://twitter.com/itsa_talia/status/1320197887071051776?s=20
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