USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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> No greater election ripoffs than US Democrats, Socialists, etc...

Constantly violating Constitution and Law
to fraud elections any way they can...


Pennsylvania Court Rules Mail-In Voting Unconstitutional

https://www.fox43.com/article/news/politics/elections/mail-in-voting-elections-pennsylvania/521-216f4c12-a9cb-448f-8a7d-88ec06412b0a

A Pennsylvania court ruled on Friday that the state's two-year-old
mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, siding with Republicans who
challenged the law following the 2020 election.

According to the ruling released today, Act 77, which allows PA
residents to vote by mail, violates Article VII of the state
constitution - and denied the Department of State acting secretary's
application for summary relief.

"If presented to the people, a constitutional amendment to end Article
VII, Section 1 requirement of in-person voting is likely to be
adopted. But a constitutional amendment must be presented to the
people and adopted into our fundamental law before legislation
allowing no-excuse mail-in voting can be 'placed upon our statute
books'," wrote Commonwealth Court President Mary Hannah Leavitt.

Not so fast?

The Friday decision by a five-judge Commonwealth Court Panel could be
put on hold if Gov. Tom Wolf's administration appeals to the state
Supreme Court.

    Act 77, the Pennsylvania law which legalized no-excuse mail-in
voting in 2019, was originally born out of a compromise between
legislative Republicans and Democratic Governor Tom Wolf. Republicans
wanted to eliminate straight-ticket voting, and to do so, gave mail-in
voting to Democrats. Prior to this, only people who qualified for
absentee voting were allowed to vote by mail.

    Republicans voted in near unanimity for Act 77; 27-0 in the
Senate, and 105-2 in the House. Democrats offered no support in the
Senate, and were split in the lower chamber, 59 against, 33 for.
-Fox43

Following the 2020 US election, Republicans demanded that Pennsylvania
repeal Act 77 - claiming that 'no-excuse' mail-in voting violations
the constitution, and that only voters who qualify for absentee voting
should be allowed to do so.

The PA Department of State has yet to comment on the ruling, however
it's a safe bet that they'll appeal the decision to the state Supreme
Court - which holds a 5-2 Democratic majority according to the report.







Is Democracy Dying Or America Disintegrating?

https://buchanan.org/blog/is-democracy-dying-or-america-disintegrating-159028

    “What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of
the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The
revolution was in the minds of the people.”

What did John Adams mean when he wrote this to Thomas Jefferson in
1815, after both had served as president?

Adams was saying that America, the country that took up arms and
fought for its independence from the British, was already a nation —
before 1775.

America preexisted the Constitution, Adams is saying. America had been
conceived and born before he and Jefferson began to write its
Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776. America had come
into being even before Lexington and Concord in 1775.

A corollary of what Adams wrote is that America, and the republic
created by the Constitution, are not the same thing.

While America is a country, a republic is the form of government
created for that country in Philadelphia in 1787.

“A republic if you can keep it,” said Ben Franklin to the lady who had
asked what kind of government they had created for the already
existing nation, when he emerged from that constitutional convention.

What, then, are our elites bewailing when they say that populists,
rightists and Trumpists have put “our democracy” at risk?

Answer: It is not America the country or America the nation they are
referring to, but our political system as it has evolved.

And what is the nature of the threat they see?

A precondition of democracy is that the results of elections be
recognized and respected, and if repeatedly challenged, this is a
mortal threat. And this is the present peril.

Yet, there are other preconditions, not only for democracies but for
countries, that were enumerated in The Federalist Papers:

    “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to
one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors,
speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to
the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and
customs … ”

    “This country and this people seem to have been made for each
other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an
inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to
each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number
of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.”

John Jay was describing the preconditions of a nation, a country, a
people. Do these preconditions still exist in America?

“One united people”? “A band of brethren”? A common ancestry, common
religion, common language, common customs and manners?

That may describe the America of 1789. Does it describe the America of
2022? Or does Jay’s phrase, “a number of unsocial, jealous and alien
sovereignties,” better describe the America of today?

Hillary Clinton once wrote off half of Trump’s supporters, nearly
one-fourth of the nation, as “a basket of deplorables … racist,
sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic … bigots,” who are
“irredeemable.”

Assume that our elites, who often echo what Hillary Clinton said of
the populist Trumpist right, agree with her.

Why would virtuous liberals wish to continue in political association
with people like this?

Why would they not declare that, if an election again delivers rule to
such people, we want no part of the system or polity that produced so
intolerable an outcome?

Why would the capture of all three branches of government by people
such as Hillary Clinton describes not be cause for dissolving the
Union?

How could democracy be a superior form of government, if it could
deliver the republic to people such as these, and perhaps twice?

If the progressives’ enemies are “Nazis” and “fascists,” why would
progressives not rise in resistance and reject their rule, rather than
cooperate with them in the governance of the country?

Why would good people not battle to overturn an election that produced
a majority for such “deplorables”?

Do the commands of democracy take precedence over the demands of
decency? Rather than govern in concert with people like this, why not
get as far removed from them as possible?

The point here: Not only may the preconditions of democracy be
disappearing, but the preconditions of nationhood may be
disintegrating.

Again, the American right is today routinely compared to Nazis,
fascists and Klansmen. Why would good liberal Democrats accept an
electoral victory and future rule by Nazis and fascists rather than
seek to overturn it, by whatever means necessary?

And how do you hold up American democracy as a model to mankind if,
after two centuries, it has produced scores of millions of citizens
like those described by Hillary Clinton?

And, again, if the preconditions of democracy are vanishing, and the
preconditions of nationhood are disappearing, is not secession of some
kind inevitable and even desirable?

Ultimately, the logic of our situation must lead us to consider
something like this. Western Maryland’s attempt to secede and join
West Virginia, and Eastern Oregon’s attempt to secede and join Idaho,
may be harbingers of what is to come.