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Anonymous ID: cd1389 May 2, 2022, 5:28 p.m. No.16197449   🗄️.is đź”—kun

BREAKING: Lehigh County finds numerous election code violations with ballot drop boxes

 

An upcoming court filing, a draft of which was reviewed by The Post Millennial, to be filed in the Court of Common Pleas, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Civil Division, will ask for an injunction against that county's Board of Elections "from receiving and counting invalid and void ballots." The Board was scheduled to begin accepting those ballots on Monday, May 2 in anticipation of an upcoming May 17 primary for the hotly contested midterm elections that may cost Democrats control of the US House of Representatives.

 

Jack Posobiec broke down the story of potential ballot harvesting on Human Events Daily. The draft motion notes that "Pennsylvania election code requires that mailed and absentee ballots must be returned either by mail or in person by the person to whom the ballot belongs." This injunction would prevent the Board from counting ballots that were brought to drop boxes by persons other than the voter who cast the ballot.

 

The law states, per the motion, that "With the exceptions of absentee voters who have a disability or who are overseas, all Ballots must be delivered to the County Board of Elections either in person by the voter themselves or through the US Postal Service. Ballots delivered by any other means for absentee/mail-in voters who don't have a disability will not be accepted by the County Board of Elections. Absentee Ballots delivered for voters who do not have a disability may be delivered by a third party who has written authorization from the disabled absentee. Absentee Ballots delivered for an absentee voter who is overseas on Election Day may be made by an overseas delivery service."

 

A similar motion was filed in March and denied, but this comes after an investigation by the District Attorney's office revealed that there were, indeed, discrepancies. This could have a major impact on voting practices in Lehigh County, and on the Board of Elections' ability to conduct free and fair elections free from fraud.

 

SAUCE: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-lehigh-county-finds-numerous-election-code-violations-with-ballot-drop-boxes

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Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

 

 

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

 

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey – that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes.

 

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in the document, labeled as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

 

Deliberations on controversial cases have in the past been fluid. Justices can and sometimes do change their votes as draft opinions circulate and major decisions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before a decision is unveiled. The court’s holding will not be final until it is published, likely in the next two months.

 

The immediate impact of the ruling as drafted in February would be to end a half-century guarantee of federal constitutional protection of abortion rights and allow each state to decide whether to restrict or ban abortion. It’s unclear if there have been subsequent changes to the draft.

 

No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending. The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.

 

The draft opinion offers an extraordinary window into the justices’ deliberations in one of the most consequential cases before the court in the last five decades. Some court-watchers predicted that the conservative majority would slice away at abortion rights without flatly overturning a 49-year-old precedent. The draft shows that the court is looking to reject Roe’s logic and legal protections.

 

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

 

Justice Samuel Alito in an initial draft majority opinion

 

A person familiar with the court’s deliberations said that four of the other Republican-appointed justices – Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett – had voted with Alito in the conference held among the justices after hearing oral arguments in December, and that line-up remains unchanged as of this week.

 

SAUCE: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473