Anonymous ID: d8192f Nov. 6, 2020, 1:17 p.m. No.11506125   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6498 >>6620

New Lawsuit Alleges Pennsylvania Democrats Broke Election Laws

 

In the latest of several lawsuits against Pennsylvania election officials, Republicans say deputy elections secretary Jonathan Marks violated state code by notifying Democrat Party representatives of ballots that were rejected before the polls closed. In a process called “curing” ballots, officials note which ballots are set to be rejected and reach out to the voter to allow him to cast a new provisional ballot. Election officials in Pennsylvania allegedly told Democrat operatives the names and contact information of voters whose ballots were rejected before the end of Election Day, which Republicans say violates state election laws. Pennsylvania code mandates that “No person observing, attending or participating in a pre-canvass meeting may disclose the results of any portion of any pre-canvass meeting prior to the close of the polls.” Pre-canvassing is the process of opening and counting votes before reporting them. The six Republicans who filed the lawsuit, including two candidates and four voters from three different counties, say Marks violated this portion of the election code by sending an email on Monday night to county election officials. In the email obtained by National Review, Marks said that “county boards of elections should provide information to party and candidate representatives during the pre-canvass that identifies the voters whose ballots have been rejected.”

 

Bucks County and Montgomery County both notified voters whose ballots needed alteration, as Marks’ email demanded. Montgomery County officials say they have set aside the altered ballots until the suit is resolved. The votes in question are from mail-in ballots, which have heavily favored Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Eight other Pennsylvania counties refused to follow Marks’ instructions since they violated election code, the lawsuit adds. It also quotes the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s acknowledgment that “unlike in-person voters, mail-in or absentee voters are not provided any opportunity to cure perceived [ballot] defects in a timely manner.” The court made the statement in its recent decision forbidding election officials from rejecting ballots based on the voter’s signature. In another decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court forced election officials to accept mail-in ballots through the Friday after Election Day, even if there is no proof they were postmarked on time. The case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which split 4-4 on granting a stay in early October, before Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation. But the court could still consider the issue anew in a post-Election Day decision. Pennsylvania election officials were also telling the Biden campaign privately on Wednesday that they expected Biden to win by a margin of 100,000 to 200,000 votes.

 

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign filed and won a lawsuit to make election officials allow Republican poll-watchers to observe the vote-counting. This lawsuit claimed that poll officials were “hiding ballot counting” by making Republicans stand too far away. “Democracy dies in darkness,” said Corey Lewandowski, a senior advisor to the Trump campaign, about Philadelphia officials’ apparent attempt to keep Republicans from watching the vote tally. “It’s time to go in and put some light on what’s happening.” A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge decided in favor of the Trump campaign’s claim, although the Philadelphia Board of Elections has appealed the decision. In another lawsuit, the Trump campaign has sued the Pennsylvania secretary of state to shorten the deadline for voters with mail-in ballots to provide outstanding ID needed to validate their votes. As of Thursday night, Trump led Biden by less than 27,000 votes, according to the Associated Press. That number dropped from around a 500,000-vote lead on Wednesday. An evidentiary hearing in the lawsuit over ballot “curing” will occur Friday morning.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/06/new-lawsuit-alleges-pennsylvania-democrats-broke-election-laws/

Pennsylvania Election Mandates

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/PDF/1937/0/0320..PDF

Pennsylvania Democrats Accused of Violating Election Rules, Offering Ballot Info to Party Operatives

Anonymous ID: d8192f Nov. 6, 2020, 1:42 p.m. No.11506577   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6647

Man arrested in connection with massacre of Mormon women and children in Mexico

 

A man has been arrested in connection with last year's massacre of nine Mormon American-Mexican citizens on a remote dirt road in northwestern Mexico, officials in that country said Wednesday. The man, "Alfredo L.," was detained in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city across the US-Mexico border from El Paso, Texas, the Mexican attorney general's office said. He "is a member of a criminal organization with a presence in the north of (Mexico), and is likely a participant in the events that occurred" in the November 4, 2019, killings of the three women and six children in Mexico's Sonora state, the office said. The man is being charged with homicide and organized crime, though no details about what led authorities to believe he was involved in the deaths were immediately released. The announcement of the arrest came exactly one year after the massacre happened.

 

The women and children dual US-Mexican citizens and members of an independent Mormon community in Sonora state were in three vehicles well outside that community when attackers opened fire on them in two separate locations, authorities said. One of the vehicles was about 10 miles behind the others. Eight other children survived the assaults, including a baby found hidden in one vehicle, and a 13-year-old boy who walked about 14 miles back to the Mormon community, La Mora, to seek help. Though the victims had different last names, they all had ties to the extended LeBaron family in Mexico. Mexican authorities last year said they believed drug cartel members, long a driver of violence in the country, committed the massacre. No arrests were immediately made in the month of the attack. Authorities last year offered various theories as to why the shooting happened, but no single definitive explanation was released.

 

Suspect arrested after 9 US citizens, including 6 children, killed in Mexico ambush

https://www.news.meredithlmg.com/general/suspect-arrested-after-9-us-citizens-including-6-children-killed-in-mexico-ambush/article_62f85e8b-bcd0-5edd-96da-ae5e86b68ff2.html

A family member's audio messages reveal the horror and heartbreak after the Mexico massacre

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/americas/mexico-mormon-massacre-audio-messages/index.html

13-year-old Mormon boy who walked for hours after Mexico ambush speaks out

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/11/world/mormon-family-mexico-escape/index.html