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According to the National Review, the lawsuit cited an email sent to the county elections director by Jonathan Marks, Pennsylvania’s undersecretary of elections.
At 8:38 pm on Monday (November 2), Max wrote: “During the” pre-count “(pre-count) period, the county election committee must provide information to representatives of political parties and candidates for determine which voter votes were Reject “so they can get another provisional ballot.
According to Pennsylvania Election Law, the term “pre-vote” refers to the process of verifying and opening the envelope containing absentee ballots or mailed ballots, and calculating and counting the ballots. It does not include the registration or publication of ballot data.
The lawsuit stated that Max’s order violated Pennsylvania Election Law, which states: “Persons observing, attending, or participating in the pre-voting meeting must not reveal the results of any pre-voting meeting before the end of the vote. the vote “.
Republicans also cited a Penn State Supreme Court ruling that “unlike voters who are present at the scene, voters who are sent by mail or absent from voting have no opportunity to correct any defects found. (on the ballot) on time. “
In other words, the Pennsylvania Superior Court believes that voters who choose to publish or vote absentee cannot be amended once their ballots are rejected.
Republicans believe that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and Under Secretary of Elections Max broke this rule for the benefit of Democrats. Pokwall did not respond to The Epoch Times request for comment.
The attorney who filed the lawsuit, Thomas Breth, wrote that some county-level election committees in Pennsylvania provided party officials with the names, addresses, and email addresses of voters, as well as explanations about their defects on the ballot. .
Breis wrote: “It is not appropriate for counties to unilaterally formulate their own standards and procedures, and allow individuals to modify (votes).”
Lawrence Tabas, leader of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, criticized the Democratic Party.
“They are constantly changing the rules,” he told National Review: “They have adopted different standards. They publish guidelines as they work and change the rules as they work. This makes it difficult for us to establish a clear, unified standard. To regulate the entire state. This is what we want “.
Penn State officials have urged voters at the county level to separate deferred ballots, but Republicans say these instructions have been chaotic.
Tabas is concerned that if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump and only counts the first batch of votes, these late ballots may have been mixed up with ballots sent on time.
“There is no clear indication that they were kept isolated during the process so that we can determine which ones were late in the future,” Tabas said.
In the state, Trump edged out Biden by about 500,000 votes on Wednesday, but as more and more absent ballots were added to the statistics, the gap between the two narrowed.
In addition to the lawsuit filed for alleged election law violations, the Trump campaign recently filed other legal actions in Pennsylvania. Including allegations that Pennsylvania Democratic Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar improperly extended the deadline for absentee and mailed voters to provide identification from November 9-12. The Pennsylvania Federal Court also ruled in favor of the Trump campaign, ordering that overdue ballots be divided and not counted.
At the same time, Trump’s team also filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania and Michigan, demanding that the state stop counting votes because the local area did not allow all parties to enter the counting point fairly. Observers did not get information. significant about the counting process. Supervisory authority.
Editor in charge: Ye Ziwei
