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Pennsylvania Republicans Are Already Refusing to Count Absentee Ballots
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Nov 04, 2020 12:06pm |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Author | Eric Cortellessa |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 4, 2020 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republicans in Pennsylvania, which could ultimately decide the presidential contest, seem to have gotten the message. As of Monday, several GOP elections officials in the Keystone State said they would not count absentee ballots that arrive after Election Day, even though the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that Pennsylvania should count all ballots postmarked by Tuesday and received by Friday.
Ray D’Agostino, the GOP commissioner of Lancaster County, posted on Facebook that the county would set aside all of the ballots received after Tuesday—and explicitly said he would wait until a new ruling from the Supreme Court before tallying them. “Between Wednesday and Friday this week, mail ballots that came in Monday and Tuesday will be processed, and ballots received Wednesday through Friday with postmarks by 8 pm on Election Day (or no postmark) will be set aside until a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court or some other direction,” he wrote.
Why would D’Agostino and Gould want to wait on another SCOTUS ruling when the high court has already issued one? It’s simple: Trump’s newly installed justice, Amy Coney Barrett, did not participate in the last decision, meaning Republicans are likely hoping the ruling could go another way the second time around. |
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