PA, DELAWARE CODIFY UNCONSTUTIONAL MASS MAILER ELECTION LAWS – Delaware recently passed legislation that would make permanent the emergency mass-mailer election provisions of 2020. PA’s State Supreme Court ruled the unaccountable mass-mailer method of election is within the legislature’s power to create, despite it being overtly unconstitutional. In both instances, the DNC was in charge of the decision-making process.
Pennsylvania’s mail voting law can stay in place, state Supreme Court rules · Spotlight PA
From www.spotlightpa.org
2022-08-02 17:08:32
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The state Supreme Court has upheld Pennsylvania’s mail ballot law, preserving a popular voting method that passed the legislature with bipartisan support but was later challenged by Republican elected officials.
In its 5-2 decision released Tuesday, the justices rejected the GOP argument that the legislature did not have the power under the state constitution to allow Pennsylvanians to vote by mail without an excuse. The law, known as Act 77 and employed for the first time during the contentious 2020 presidential election, ushered in the most sweeping expansion of voting access in Pennsylvania in decades.
Delaware Allowing Widespread Mail-In Voting Violates Constitution
From thefederalist.com
2022-08-03 11:59:00
Margot Cleveland
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Delaware’s Legislature used its emergency powers and the excuse of the pandemic to authorize no-excuse mail-in voting for 2020, but now, without bothering to lean on Covid as a crutch, the Democrat-controlled state legislature has passed a law providing for an unlimited right to vote by mail as well as authorizing same-day voter registration. A new lawsuit filed last week, however, seeks to have both laws declared unconstitutional under the Delaware constitution before this year’s midterm elections.
Before the 2020 election, the Delaware General Assembly approved no-excuse mail-in voting, even though Article V, Section 4A of the state constitution expressly provides for absentee voting only where a qualified elector is “unable to appear to cast his or her ballot” “at the regular polling place of the election district,” under limited, enumerated circumstances. Specifically, absentee voting is authorized under the state constitution if an elector cannot vote at…
