Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, head of the Republican Attorneys General Association, asks the US Supreme Court to hear a case challenging the legality of many Pennsylvania mail-in ballots.
Before the November 3rd election the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots that arrived after polls closed could be counted. Landry said those votes shouldn’t count.
“If the law is unambiguous, and it is clear, and it says that ballots shall be returned up until 8 PM, any ballot received after 8 PM is an illegal ballot,” said Landry.
Under the ruling, a vote could be counted as long as the mail-in ballot was postmarked by Election Day.
Landry says the lower courts allowing ballots received after 8 PM Election Day to be counted is like allowing referees to change the rules of a football game at halftime.
“The referees, which are the judges, don’t get to write the rules, that’s the Legislature, and unfortunately here we believe that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did exactly that by rewriting the law,” said Landry.
President-Elect Joe Biden is currently winning the state by 45,000 votes. On election night and the day after he trailed significantly but caught up as a flood of mail-in ballots began to be tallied. An estimated 98 percent of all votes in the state have been counted so far.
Landry says this challenge is about preserving election integrity.
“We believe that the voting system should be free of outside undue influence and that irregularities in the process should be completely vetted so that the American people can have faith in their system,” said Landry.
Democrats argue the challenge is a partisan attempt to overturn election results that show an unambiguous win for President-Elect Biden. Should the US Supreme Court side with Landry and the state go to President Trump Biden would still have enough electoral votes to win the Presidency.
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