WASHINGTON: Ten Republican The attorneys general have filed an amicus brief with the US. Supreme Court in a case seeking the reversal of a lower court order allowing mail-in ballots in the key battlefield state of Pennsylvania to be received three days after election day.
Claiming that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court order was unconstitutional, attorneys general said the state exceeded its constitutional authority by accepting late ballots and violated the electoral provisions of the Constitution and that voting by mail creates risks of voter fraud.
They also alleged that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision exacerbated the risks of absence vote fraud. The Pennsylvania Republican Party has filed a case in this regard before the United States Supreme Court. The Trump Campaign and the Republican Party believe that such a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave an undue advantage to the opposition Democratic Party.
President Donald Trump, according to major American media outlets, lost the election in the key state of Pennsylvania, which has 20 crucial votes in the electoral college. Trump lost to his Democratic Party rival, Joe Biden, who won the more than 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House race.
In an interim order, the United States Supreme Court has asked the state of Pennsylvania to set aside all ballots received in the mail after 8 p.m. on Election Day on November 3.
“Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our republic and are one of the reasons the United States is the envy of the world. We have to make sure that every legal vote cast is counted and that every illegal vote cast is not counted. “Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who led the multi-state report, said during the press conference.
“Doing so would disenfranchise millions of Americans and that is why we are filing this brief today seeking the Supreme Court to take the Pennsylvania case and then reverse the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision,” said Schmitt.
Schmitt was accompanied by attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakotaand Texas.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a separate amicus brief in this case, also asking the Supreme Court to take up the matter and find that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s actions in ordering the extension were unconstitutional.
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter plans to file an amicus brief tomorrow in the same case. His brief argues that under the Constitution, state legislatures must choose the point at which to stop receiving absentee ballots and begin counting votes, not state courts like the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, his office said.
Hunter said the Pennsylvania Supreme Court improperly repealed the state legislature’s deadline by writing a new postmarked deadline with an arbitrary limit of three days after Election Day.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision has consequences that could have a national domino effect in future elections, the brief read. It has created chaos that makes it impossible for state legislatures to know in advance whether or not the electoral rules they have enacted will be reinvented by the courts, according to the brief.
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania on Monday alleging the creation and implementation of an illegal “two-tier” voting system for the 2020 general election. Pennsylvania’s “two-way” system resulted in the voters were subject to different standards depending on how they chose to exercise their right to vote.
Voters in person had to sign voter registers, verify those signatures against voter rolls, vote at a polling place supervised by election observers authorized by law, and count their votes in a transparent and verifiable, open and observed manner, he said.
The Trump campaign alleged that the state mail ballot, through which nearly 2.65 million votes were cast, lacked all of the transparency and verifiability stamps that were present for in-person voters, including not proper verification of the voter identity, allowing ballots to be received. up to three days after the election to be counted without any evidence of timely mailing, such as a postmark, and denying sufficient monitoring of the mail ballot review and counting.
“Voters in Pennsylvania were held to different standards simply based on how they chose to cast their vote, and we believe this two-tier election system resulted in potentially fraudulent vote counting without proper verification or supervision, as well as deprivation many voters’ rights simply by casting their votes in person, “said Matt Morgan, general counsel for the Trump 2020 campaign.
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