Court finds Pennsylvania Mail-In Voting Law Unconstitutional
The law was challenged by Doug McLinko, vice-chair of the Bradford County Board of Commissioners, who argued he was unable to perform his duties as commissioner and certify the 2020 election because the 2019 law is unconstitutional.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on Friday found the state’s mail-in voting law unconstitutional.
The lawsuit was filed by Doug McLinko, vice chairman of the Bradford County Board of Commissioners in Pennsylvania. His argument was that he was unable to perform his duties as commissioner and certify the 2020 election because Pennsylvania’s 2019 election reform law is unconstitutional.
McLinko describes the Trump-Biden election after this law as a “mess” and told Just the News, “Our votes were just thrown away.”
In October 2019, Act 77 was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf with support from both parties. The law, described by PennLive “as the most significant change to Pennsylvania’s election laws in more than 80 years,” greatly expands mail-in voting by allowing a citizen to vote by mail without an excuse. It also allocated $90 million to buy new voting machines and ended straight-party voting, forcing Pennsylvanians to actively vote for each candidate on the ballot, rather than make one mark to vote for all candidates of a specified party.
The executive director of the left-leaning election organization Deliver My Vote, Leigh Chapman, was nominated by Wolf to serve as acting Secretary of State starting earlier this month. She will supervise the state’s elections.
The act “should have been put on the ballot, and the constitution should have been changed to allow it, like bulk case laws,” the Bradford County Commissioner said.
The legal victory “may spur people to take a harder look at their own state, how they enacted the laws, so forth,” attorney and former CIA officer Sam Faddis told Just the News. “At a minimum, it’s a massive psychological boost.”
Faddis said he feels that part of Biden’s large share of Pennsylvania votes is “unfortunately fraud.”
“That’s one of the clear reasons the Democratic party has always pushed mail-in voting, is to get those folks who won’t bother to vote,” he told Just the News. “Because even if you hated Trump, nobody was really psyched about Joe Biden. I mean, it’s very hard, very hard to get motivated about him.”
“In exchange for Democratic support for ending straight party voting, the Republican establishment gave the Democrats mail-in voting” in Pennsylvania, Faddis wrote in AND Magazine.
“The boys in the backrooms in the state capital believed that Donald Trump was so unpopular people would show up and simply vote against all Republicans,” Faddis wrote. In an effort to repeal straight-party voting, the Pennsylvania GOP “engaged in some good old-fashioned political horse-trading.”…..
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