The Trump campaign leaped over one of its several legal challenges in the state of Pennsylvania.
Today’s win came when a Pennsylvania judge ruled that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar had no authority to unilaterally change the deadline to cure problems regarding a lack of proof of identification.
Fox News had the scoop:
State law said that voters have until six days after the election — this year that was Nov. 9 — to cure problems regarding a lack of proof of identification. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots could be accepted three days after Election Day, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar submitted guidance that said proof of identification could be provided up until Nov. 12, which is six days from the ballot acceptance deadline. That guidance was issued two days before Election Day.
“[T]he Court concludes that Respondent Kathy Boockvar, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Commonwealth, lacked statutory authority to issue the November 1, 2020, guidance to Respondents County Boards of Elections insofar as that guidance purported to change the deadline … for certain electors to verify proof of identification,” Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt said in a court order.
This was in line with the Trump campaign’s argument, which was that there was no basis in the state’s law to extend the identification deadline, and that Boockvar did not have the power to unilaterally change it.
The court had previously ordered that all ballots where voters provided proof of identification between Nov. 10 and 12 should be segregated until a ruling was issued determining what should be done with them.
On Thursday, Leavitt ruled that those ballots shall not be counted.
There are multiple lawsuits being made by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania and more developments are to come later in the week.
Not to mention what the U.S. Supreme Court decides to do regarding the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s extension of accepting mail-in ballots.
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Stay tuned on future updates in Pennsylvania!
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