Editor : Lu Yongxin / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/11/07/a102981360.html / Direct translation
Image : On November 6, 2020, election staff in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, counted votes at the Philadelphia Convention Center. (Chris McGrath / Getty Images)
The Epoch Times quoted National Review as reporting that the lawsuit cited an email sent by Penn’s Deputy Election Secretary Jonathan Marks to the county election director.
At 8.38 pm on Monday (November 2), Max wrote, "During the pre-canvass period, the County Election Commission shall provide information to representatives of political parties and candidates to determine which voters have their votes rejected." So that they can get another provisional ballot.
According to the Pennsylvania Election Law, the term "pre-canvass" refers to the process of checking and opening the envelope containing absent ballots or mailed ballots, and calculating and counting the ballots. It does not include recording or publishing ballot data.
The lawsuit stated that Max’s order violated the Pennsylvania Electoral Law, which stipulates: “Persons who observe, attend or participate in the pre-canvass meeting shall not disclose the results of any pre-voting meeting before the voting is over."
Republicans also cited a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling, which stated that “unlike voters who are present at the scene, voters who vote by mail or absenteeism do not have any opportunity to correct defects found (on the ballot) in time”.
In other words, the Pennsylvania High Court believes that voters who choose to post or vote in absentia cannot be amended once their ballots are rejected.
Republicans believe that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and Deputy Election Secretary Max are breaking this rule to benefit Democrats. Pokwall did not respond to the Epoch Times’ request for comment.
The lawyer who filed the lawsuit, Thomas Breth, wrote that some county-level election committees in Pennsylvania provided party officials with the names, addresses, and email addresses of voters, as well as explanations for their ballot defects.
Bress wrote, “It is not appropriate for counties to unilaterally set their own standards and procedures and let individuals modify (votes).”
Lawrence Tabas, the leader of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, criticized the Democrats, "They are constantly changing the rules." He told the National Review, "They have been adopting different standards. They publish guidelines while working, and change rules while working. This makes it difficult for us to establish a clear and unified standard to regulate the entire state. This is what we want and need."
Tabas is also worried that if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court makes a ruling in favor of Trump and only counts the first batch of votes, these late ballots may have been mixed into the ballots sent on time.
"There is no clear indication that they did stay in isolation during the process so that we can determine which ones are late in the future," Tabas said.
In the state, Trump led Biden by about 500,000 votes on Wednesday, but as more and more absentee ballots were added to the statistics, the gap between the two was narrowed.
On November 6, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order requiring Pennsylvania to separate ballots received by mail after 8 pm on election day (3rd), "All such ballots, if counted, shall be counted separately."
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