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Why Are They Teasing A Hunter Indictment Right Now?
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The SCOTUS overturns lower court decision allowing flawed ballots be counted. The Pennsylvania Secretary of State, a Democrat, has suggested Pa. need not obey the decision.
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US Supreme Court Overturns Pennsylvania Court – Rules that Ballots with Even Minor Flaws Cannot Be Counted in Elections
by Kari Donovan, REPUBLICAN BRIEF
Flawed election ballots will not be counted in the November midterm elections in one state, according to a new US Supreme Court ruling for the state of Pennsylvania, which overturned a lower court ruling on the matter.
That means that mailed-in ballots that are not completed or inaccurate are not going to be tallied into the total this time, as they were in 2020, and the Democrats are in a panic about it.
Joe Hoft reported for The Gateway Pundit and cited a Conservative Brief report:
The United States Supreme Court has sided with a Pennsylvania Republican in a ballot case for a judgeship.
The Supreme Court nixed a lower court ruling that allowed the counting of mail-in ballots that did not have the date on them, the Associated Press reported.
The justices vacated the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling as requested by David Ritter, who lost his 2021 bid for a spot on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas to a Democratic rival by five votes after 257 absentee ballots without date notations were counted.
The high court’s action means that the 3rd Circuit ruling cannot be used as a precedent in the three states covered by this regional federal appellate court – Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware – to allow the counting of ballots with minor flaws such as the voter failing to fill in the date.
The campaign for Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania recognized that the lower court’s ruling was in error and would negatively impact future elections in the state, so they joined David Ritter in his appeal.
But the campaign for Oz submitted a brief in support of judicial candidate David Ritter. “The Third Circuit’s thinly reasoned and erroneous decision — which addressed a county judicial election conducted more than six months ago — is now being weaponized to undermine the apparent result of a statewide primary election for the Republican nomination to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate,” his attorneys said.
In May, the three-judge panel on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that said election officials should count several hundred mail ballots that were received without a date on the envelopes in an election for county judge that was received on time, Politico reported.
Pennsylvania elections are a joke and have been for some time. In 2019 the state’s auditor reported on the abysmal state of the state’s election process.
For any doubters that the 2020 Election in Pennysylvania was a mess – just look at the videos in the article below.
“The 2020 Election in Pennsylvania should never have been certified for Joe Biden. Never,” Hoft reported.
PA is the home of some very strange politics this campaign season as one Senate candidate is unable to speak without the assistance of a machine. It is so shocking that even the left-leaning show- The View, picked up on the disaster Democrats face in PA.
That might be why PA Democrats, who are seeing a disaster in their Senate race, are already signaling they plan to ignore the US Supreme court ruling.
Despite the ruling by the high court, PA state officials are already planning on cheating and pushing their demands that all ballots be counted:
A top election official in Pennsylvania says the state will disregard the U.S. Supreme Court’s guidance on counting mail-in ballots arriving in envelopes with typos or incorrect dates, saying that the state’s Commonwealth Court has already established the practice as licit.
Pennsylvania’s election laws have historically required voters to include a signature and date on the outside of return envelopes when voting by mail.
However, acting Secretary of State Leigh Chapman announced that Pennsylvania election officials should continue counting ballots that arrive with improperly filled-out envelopes, in accordance with the Commonwealth Court’s previous ruling on the matter
Fox News continues:
“Every county is expected to include undated ballots in their official returns for the Nov. 8 election, consistent with the Department of State’s guidance,” Chapman wrote. “That guidance followed the most recent ruling of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court holding that both Pennsylvania and federal law prohibit excluding legal votes because the voter omitted an irrelevant date on the ballot return envelope.”
A May 2022 decision in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ballots in this type of undated envelopes must be counted regardless. In the decision, the panel found that a handwritten date has no bearing on a voter’s eligibility and said it would violate voters’ civil rights to throw out their ballots in that election simply because they lacked a handwritten date.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the prior decision is moot, returning to the established election laws.
Chapman says the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling does not affect the state’s current election protocol, which will continue accepting and counting the ballots in defective envelopes. She cited a separate Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruling that said such ballots must be accepted.
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Manny and Scholtzy palaver with Vova
What diplomacy with Putin would look like now
By Clifford D. May
H.L. Mencken is said to have observed that for every problem there is a solution that is “neat, plausible, and wrong.” People I like, admire, and usually agree with are now proposing such a solution to the brutal, imperialist war Vladimir Putin is waging against Ukraine.
For example, Gary Bauer, the distinguished president of American Values, last week urged President Biden to “use any and all leverage to get [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky and Putin to the negotiating table as soon as possible.” And Newsweek’s Josh Hammer, an up-and-coming young commentator, last week wrote that “world leaders should be rushing to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.”
But world leaders have been attempting that – not least French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, both of whom have long enjoyed amicable relations with Mr. Putin. To understand why that hasn’t produced a breakthrough, imagine them palavering with Mr. Putin at the Kremlin about now:
Macron: Vladimir Vladimirovitch, mon vieux! Thank you for receiving us! And happy birthday!
Scholtz: Vova, mein Freund! The big Seven-Oh! How time flies!!
Putin: Manny, Scholzy, I appreciate the good wishes. My birthday was nice. Alina and I spent a couple of days at my palace on the Black Sea. But I didn’t have time for a real vacation. I’m so busy now with my Special Military Operation against the Ukrainian Nazis. But you both know about Nazis, don’t you? Hah! Enough chit-chat. What’s on your mind?
Macron: We just want to be helpful.
Scholtz: To clear up misunderstandings! To put the ship back on an even keel!
Putin: I always welcome frank discussions. Can I offer you some vodka and caviar? I have plenty.
Scholtz: No, thanks, I’m good.
Macron: Me too. Well, maybe a little wine?
Putin: I have a nice white from the Russian regions of Georgia. Not as good as your Sancerre but I think you’ll find it amusing. I also have brandy from Armenia. Not as good as your Cognac, but Armenia is now – how shall I put it? – back in the fold. [Snaps his fingers. White-gloved servants enter with bottles and glasses.]
Macron: So, to the point: We want peace. You do, too. Am I right?
Putin: Hey, what’s with Biden? He walks funny, you know? And does he really think boys can be girls and girls can be boys? Man, I’d like to go a couple of rounds on the judo mat with the Big Guy.
Scholz: You needn’t worry about Biden.
Macron: Yes, we speak for NATO and for the European Union. So, with your help, we can settle our disagreements to everyone’s satisfaction.
Putin: What do you propose?
Macron: We want to give you an offramp
Putin: An offramp? Manny, I don’t need an offramp. Do you need an offramp? Because if you do, I’ll give you one.
Macron: Well, I mean, we all want a diplomatic solution, right?
Putin: So, here it is: You stop sending weapons and ammunition to that Jewish comedian in Kiev – not Kyiv by the way. Speak Russian! And no more NATO expansion. Finland and Sweden stay out. Lithuania – out too. Also: You guys repair the Nord Stream pipelines so I can start sending you gas again. You’ve got a cold winter ahead, Scholzy! Or are you depending on “global warming” to heat Berlin? Hah! Okay, how’s that for an offramp?
Macron: Well, mon cher Vovochka, those are kind of maximalist demands. We were thinking maybe a return to the status quo ante Feb. 24. You keep Crimea. Maybe some of Donbas? Russian troops leave other parts of Ukraine?
Putin: Nice try, young man. Come visit me again when you have something realistic to put on the table. Listen, I’ve got to get back to work. I have some tactical nukes I need to inspect. Tell Biden I said that. And ask him if he’ll have more flexibility after the election. Hah! Manny, one teeny favor? Alina would love this season’s Louis Vuitton satchels – all sizes – and a case of Dom Perignon? I’d appreciate it. Au revoir! Tschuss! Do svidaniya! [Snaps his fingers. Soldiers enter and roughly escort Messrs. Macron and Scholtz out.]
I’m going to end on a serious note as befits a serious crisis. Vladimir Putin is a tyrant and a war criminal. He’s using cruise missiles to strike civilians and civilian infrastructure to create fear. We must hope he’s not a madman, preparing to use weapons of mass destruction to exterminate those who refuse to submit to him, willing to escalate beyond that, and indifferent to the prospect of his own children and grandchildren perishing in a nuclear exchange – one he initiates.
But if he is mad, all the more reason not to give in to his nuclear blackmail. Because if that gambit succeeds, he will use it over and over – as will the rulers of China, North Korea, and Iran if they become nuclear-armed. We know where that road leads.
So long as Ukrainians are willing to fight for freedom against an enemy of freedom, Americans and other free peoples should support them
We don’t know how the battle being waged against Ukraine ends. We don’t know how the broader war being waged against American and the Free World ends. We either resolve to tolerate this uncertainty or we choose defeat – and not only in Ukraine.
But the day Vladimir Putin knows he can win neither on the battlefield nor through blackmail is the day he may seek a diplomatic solution or, better yet, a more comfortable retirement then awaits most tyrants. On that day, his meeting with NATO leaders will be quite different from what I’ve sketched out above.
Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times.
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