This string of lies, falsehoods, and outlandish conspiracy theories is untethered to reality.
The campaign and its allies have had dozens of opportunities to present evidence and make these claims in court. They didn’t, and they lost — the election and the lawsuits.
Confused? I was. Talked to a few experts, and here’s my basic takeaway:
This might change some of the road to get there, but the result is basically unchanged: Congress will meet Jan. 6, receive the Electoral College votes, and Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president Jan. 20.
Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Bryan Cutler and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, have sent a letter to the state’s congressional delegation urging them to object to PA’s Electoral College votes on Jan. 6.
PA GOP lawmakers: “3 U.S.C. §15, empowers Congress to reject electoral votes that are not ‘regularly given’ or ‘lawfully certified.’ The aforementioned conduct has undermined the lawful certification of Pennsylvania’s delegation to the Electoral College.”
The PA GOP lawmakers also sent a letter calling on @JoshShapiroPA “to appoint an independent prosecutor to review these election irregularities, to ensure the statutes governing our elections were not violated, and to make recommendations to [legislature]” pahousegopnews.com/AttachedFiles/…
The PA Supreme Court dismisses the case brought by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly that sought to overturn last year’s law creating no-excuse mail voting and to throw out those mail ballots cast in this election.
This is the case the Commonwealth Court had earlier blocked certification in.
Here’s the concurring and dissenting statement from Chief Justice Saylor, which Justice Mundy joins:
Here’s the concurring statement from Justice Wecht (pages 1–4):
Rudy Giuliani made this absolutely absurd, untrue claim about PA mailing out 1.8M ballots but counting 2.5M, and now people really believe it and think there’s obvious fraud being ignored.
Hard to know the right way to fight back against this stuff sometimes. Sigh.
“They had an armed guard that stopped us first, they had magnetometers, and they had uniformed police officers who threatened to arrest us if we went in.”
Sounds like a high level of security around the ballot-counting process.
“I presented that order to both the chairman of the board of elections”
The chair, Lisa Deeley, is a woman. Her deputy says Lewandowski “never spoke to Lisa.”
The secretary of state disagreed. She said it wouldn’t be a problem bc counties would count mail ballots after polls close and before the first in-person results come in.
This was before the pandemic surged demand for mail ballots. In March, it was changed from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.