The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) that sought to block the state’s practice of “curing” mail-in ballots. This ruling allows election officials to notify voters of any errors on their mail-in ballots and give them the opportunity to correct those mistakes—a decision that could impact the upcoming presidential election in this crucial battleground state.
Mail-in voting has become a major flashpoint in recent election cycles, with Democrats relying heavily on this method in 2020 to secure votes for Joe Biden. On Election Day 2020, Donald Trump led Biden by over 750,000 votes in Pennsylvania by midnight, but mail-in ballots from Democratic strongholds such as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were counted over the next several days. By the end of the process, Biden had overtaken Trump and won the state by roughly 80,000 votes.
The RNC and other Republicans have long argued that this shift in the count was the result of widespread manipulation of mail-in ballots. GOP concerns have centered on the lack of transparency during the extended counting period, particularly the alleged exclusion of Republican poll watchers from monitoring the mail-in ballot process in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. These concerns led to multiple lawsuits, one of which aimed to block Pennsylvania’s practice of allowing voters to “cure” mistakes on their mail-in ballots.
Mail-in ballot curing refers to the process by which election officials notify voters of errors on their ballots—such as missing signatures or incorrect dates—giving them a chance to fix those mistakes before the ballots are officially counted. This practice can be especially important for voters who submit their ballots early, ensuring that technical errors don’t invalidate their votes.
Supporters of ballot curing argue that it ensures more people can have their voices heard, especially in elections where mail-in voting is prevalent. Opponents, particularly Republicans, argue that it opens the door to manipulation, as election workers could potentially alert only certain voters to correct their mistakes, thus tilting the results.
In the run-up to the 2024 election, the RNC filed a lawsuit to prevent Pennsylvania from allowing ballot curing. The GOP argued that the practice violates state election laws and undermines the integrity of the election process. They also raised concerns about the potential for selective notification of voters based on partisan affiliations, given that mail-in voting tends to favor Democrats.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, however, dismissed the lawsuit on procedural grounds, ruling that the case had been filed too close to the upcoming November 5th election. The court’s decision allows election officials to continue notifying voters of errors in their mail-in ballots and permitting them to make corrections.
Reuters reported that the court’s decision represents a significant setback for Republicans, who see Pennsylvania as a critical state in determining the outcome of the 2024 presidential race. The GOP is particularly wary of mail-in voting, given its importance in flipping Pennsylvania blue in 2020.
This is not the only legal battle that Republicans have fought over mail-in voting in Pennsylvania. In fact, the state’s rules around the practice have been a source of contention for years. Last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that ballots with undated or improperly dated envelopes would not be counted. This ruling reversed a previous lower court decision that had deemed it unconstitutional to reject such ballots.
The undated ballot issue became significant in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when thousands of ballots were questioned due to missing or incorrect dates. The Republican Party argued that allowing these flawed ballots to be counted violated election laws, while Democrats insisted that voters should not be disenfranchised over minor technical errors.
The RNC and the Pennsylvania Republican Party had appealed the lower court’s ruling, and the state Supreme Court’s decision in their favor last month was seen as a victory for the GOP. But with the new ruling on ballot curing, Republicans now face an uphill battle to prevent Democrats from using mail-in ballots to secure votes.
Pennsylvania’s status as a swing state makes the issue of mail-in voting particularly significant. The ability for voters to correct mistakes on their mail-in ballots could help both parties mobilize their bases, but it is especially crucial for Democrats, who have historically relied more on mail-in voting.
In 2020, mail-in ballots were a decisive factor in Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, with a large number of Democrats opting to vote by mail due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, Republicans have become increasingly skeptical of mail-in voting and have made efforts to limit or challenge its use in the courts.
The court’s decision to allow ballot curing is expected to bolster Democrats’ efforts to maximize mail-in voting in 2024. Meanwhile, Republicans continue to argue that the practice introduces the potential for voter fraud and undermines confidence in the electoral process.
With Pennsylvania playing a pivotal role in the 2024 presidential election, this ruling could have far-reaching consequences. The state’s decision to permit mail-in ballot curing could lead to a high number of corrected ballots being counted after Election Day, much like what happened in 2020. And while this practice may help ensure that voters’ voices are heard, it also leaves the door open for further legal battles over election integrity.
As the election approaches, both parties will be watching Pennsylvania closely, knowing that every ballot—whether cast in person or by mail—could determine the outcome of the race for the White House.
Just another example of the kind of incompetence and corruption discussed in the lessons learned presented below.
RAPE, PILLAGE, PLUNDER; AMERICA YOU’VE BEEN HAD!
My fellow Americans, as a soldier/cop assigned to counter-terrorism/community security activities throughout most of my 30 year plus career I have been trying since 1980 to make each of you aware of the primary threats to your way of life. I have asked Americans over and over again what will it take for you to stand up and take back those rights given to you by God and promised to be respected/protected by our founding fathers when they drafted the Constitution?
Now, In consideration of all of the corruption/incompetence/treachery/etc., coming forth under the brightest light ever thanks to the Biden/Harris administration and their bosses/supporters here and around the world, I am just asking where most of you Americans stand in regards to your rights/roles/duties as citizens.
Seems the arrival of Donald J. Trump followed by Biden’s assumption of the Presidency has stripped us all naked to expose not only the sores on our bodies, but those on our souls as well!
The lessons learned I am passing on to you may give you a glimpse into the inner world of a government that devotes most of its time/energy ruling you versus serving/protecting you from the vantage point of one who served in government from the municipal through the federal level as a soldier and cop.
Most of the lessons learned (Note: After the Biden/Harris administration’s performance to date in dealing with hurricanes Helene and Milton I have only included those lessons learned most relevant to the current situation) were originally drafted in the late eighties as the prelude to a book titled: ‘Rape, Pillage, Plunder; America, You’ve Been Had!’ The Department of Defense denied permission to publish the book in that they classified an investigation detailed therein that named a gaggle of politicians and bureaucrats at every level of government as subjects. Three of those subjects went on to be elected to the office of President of the United States of America!
A SOLDIER/COP’S LESSONS LEARNED
*The end goal of the elites and their minions is not (nor ever has been) socialism, communism, fascism, or capitalism. The elites of the world and their minions have used all manner of ideologies, religions, terrorism, wars, etc., to drive the masses/peasants/serfs/whoever/whomever/whatever in one direction. That direction leads to one of the oldest forms of human control ever employed in the history of mankind. That form of human control is; “FEUDALISM!”
* The Seven C’s of Leadership according to a survey of Vietnam era ground combat veterans listed of the order of their importance to the veterans are; Candor, Competence, Consistency, Commitment, Courage, Compassion, and Courtesy. The reason the veterans chose “Candor” first and foremost, is because candor encompasses both omission and co-mission. To a combat veteran the lack of absolute candor, be it co-mission or omission, are equal sins! It has been my observation that, democrats are masters of co-mission while republicans are masters of omission!
*The American people are the most effectively lied to people in modern times thanks primarily to the political class, the bureaucracy, the media, and academia.
*The greatest threats to the American people are the corrupt and/or incompetent politicians/bureaucrats/academicians found at every level of government/academia, and the majority of the so-called media.
*The second greatest threat to the American people is that presented by radical Muslims bent on ridding the world of non-believers, installing Sharia as the only law of the land, and Islam as the world’s only religion. Note: For all of you non-Muslims who think you support Islam I strongly suggest you carefully study the game plan supposedly first presented by Mohammad (The Prophet) in early 600AD and the current socialization/cultural practices of the current Iranian government. I submit unless you are a sadistic male you will not enjoy life as a Muslim.
*Most of the politicians/bureaucrats/academicians/media types I have encountered during my years as a soldier and a cop I currently refer to as; self-serving, witless, corrupt, incompetent, cowards. Prior to retiring to the deep woods I referred to most of the before mentioned folks as self-serving, witless, corrupt, incompetent, cowardly, piss-ants. After retiring to the deep woods I came to know that piss-ants are neither self-serving nor witless, and certainly not cowards!
*The American Profession of Arms and our brothers/sisters in blue have failed to protect the American people from all of their enemies, both foreign and ‘most especially’ domestic.
*There are only two primary requirements to be a career soldier and/or cop in America. One must be smart enough to do the work and dumb enough to take the job.
*American soldiers and police officers must in addition to mastering all of their professionally mandated tasks learn to accomplish the same with at least one arm tied behind their backs, and their vision and hearing impaired 50% or more.
*After carefully watching the whole of the political class for many years I can say without reservation that most of the group will sell their souls and our bodies just to remain in power.
*Want to see what the United States of America will look like if the left /progressives take total control of the government? Take your pick, New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, or the complete packages; California, New York, Illinois, etc, etc, etc…..!
*If the so-called ‘progressive movement’ continues unchecked a number of able veterans/soldiers/cops are going to be presented with a challenge/decision. Are the American people worth another drop of our sweat and/or our blood?
*Arrogance coupled with ignorance equals stupidity.
Have a nice day,
Soldier/Cop,Retired
Reason for them (DemonRATS) to cheat, yet again!!!!!
Let me get this straight. The laws states that all mail in ballots must be PROPERLY dated and SIGNED to be valid. It is the argument of the DEMOCRATS that failing to do what is lawfully required is a “Disenfranchisement” of voters.
No, it is a LEGAL REQUIREMENT and according to law the ballot is VOID and NOT correctable by notifications. It makes the ballot VOID under law.
IMHO anyone who can not follow the instructions on a ballot probably should not have that ballot counted at all.
The PA Supreme Ct as with the entire State of Pa has become a stronghold for the Communist left.
Isn’t this considered as cheating?
C.W. LAUDERDALE; to this point I cut to the chase with this excerpt:
“Failed to protect the American people from all of their enemies, both foreign and ‘most especially’ domestic.”
To me this is obviously the case and has been for many decades as the country and system of governance has been infiltrated and eroded beyond repair! Let’s put it this way; the door to the hen-house has been left wide open for the foxes and wolves!
I left a lengthy comment with another article on this site regarding what FBI Director Wray said about Trump being clipped by “Shrapnel” not a bullet; which applies here just as well because it’s the whole system that is gonzo!
“Carl; sure not from Corey Comperatore’s skull, yes you see my point of how Rude and the insulting Absurdity of an FBI Director making such a statement! He and the whole system disgust me and I mean all the Major News Media and the Government who all “play patty-cakes” and “bullshit to high heaven” while they’re all “so down and dirty” along with being “the most immoral, vile and evil people to have ever been American Citizens;” and in very crucially important positions to boot!
Yes here we are after such a horrendous event where sniper high powered rifle projectiles were whizzing through the air in an attack upon a former US President! And of course we now know one of them miraculously missed Trump’s head hitting his ear; (divine intervention) but poor Corey the good man that he was, he wasn’t so fortunate being killed by another of them, along with two other rally attendees being gravely wounded! God rest Corey’s soul and bless the wounded. Amen.
The strange thing is America was on the right track most of the time going back over the years, but even back in the late 1950’s the idea came into being that American’s could be “dangerously arrogant” which was depicted in a novel at the time when it coined the phrase “The Ugly American.”
“The phrase ugly, or Ugly, American denotes an American who behaves offensively abroad.”
“It refers to The Ugly American (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1958), a political novel co-written by:
– William Julius Lederer (1912-2009), naval officer and special assistant to Admiral Felix Stump, commander of military forces in the Pacific,
– Eugene Leonard Burdick (1918-65), professor of political theory at the University of California.
This novel denounced the failures of the U.S. Foreign Service in Southeast Asia. However, the “Ugly American” of the title, Homer Atkins, was not one of the State Department’s career men that the authors exposed: so called because of his physical appearance, he in fact epitomized the dedicated persons that Lederer and Burdick advocated for the Foreign Service.
This was detailed by Special Press Correspondent Van Allen Bradley in his review of the novel, More About ‘The Ugly American’, published in the Binghamton Press (Binghamton, New York) of Sunday 16th November 1958—“cooky pusher” designates a diplomat devoting more attention to protocol or social engagements than to his work: Chicago—A book you are going to hear a lot about this fall is “The Ugly American” (Norton $3.75), in which two authors who have spent considerable time in Southeast Asia give the State Department’s career men a rough going over.
Their complaint, which I have heard voiced elsewhere by newsmen and others who observe the world scene, is that most of the men and women who represent the United States as diplomats, particularly in Southeast Asia, are incompetent cooky pushers.
Loosely speaking, the collection of sketches and incidents with which they bolster their case is a novel. The authors tell us that most of the events they delineate have actually occurred.
The locale is the mythical country of Sarkhan, where the American ambassador, one Louis Sears, a boob if there ever was one, is pitted against a suave and ably schooled Russian ambassador.
Sears dislikes the people and the job he is supposed to do. His Russian counterpart has learned the Sarkhanese language and made the interests of the people his own.
It is this sort of thing, the authors believe, that is making it possible for the Soviets to take over Asia in bloodless conquest.
Their answer would be to kick out the deadheads and reupholster our whole foreign service with “well-trained professionals who are dedicated to their jobs and who will work in the interest of the native people. Only in this way, they imply, can we “save” Asia from the Communists.” ://wordhistories.net/2019/09/09/ugly-american/
My reason for bringing this out is that back then some good true Americans were dedicated to stopping the spread of evil Communism pushing rapidly around the Globe, and so much blood was shed in South East Asia to supposedly prevent that from happening, where actually many good patriotic American soldiers fought valiantly to stop it. But all for naught, because those devious, calculating Commies along with America’s screwed up, upper political class, the Pelosi’s, Schumer’s, Biden’s and McConnell types of that upper echelon where working against America all along and were going to sell out for a price (American Arrogance, Greed and Vanity which many of those higher ups are infected with) leaving the American Patriotic Citizens “high and dry” and in a “Deadly Quagmire” which is where we are right now!
Look around; “America is now really UGLY and SCREWED, BLUED and TATTOOED!” So yes, those other ugly adversaries the Communists, they won “after all was said and done;” because, they found our weakness or “Achilles Heel” and took full advantage of it and US! They’re not only in South East Asia, but they got the “Crème-Le-Crème” and are now here in America! They’ve infiltrated our system and culture on all levels and are turning the page!
A new novel that I propose; The Stupid Arrogant American.
I do believe in “miracles and that there is always hope;” so it will now take “a colossal amount of both” to pull out of this downward spiral without “a total revolution.”
Ballot curing? No, Ballot Harvesting or Rigging! This isn’t how you elect this is how you control!
God bless.
Brother in-Christ Jesus-Lawrence
So, does this mean that that voter must physically come in to an election site/headquarters in order to “correct” their ballot; or will the official just verbally ask them a question(s) on the phone and then ‘fix’ their ballot? It is going to be hard to “verbally sign the ballot” (never seen that done before)….remember the purpose of getting their signature is to verify that they are, in fact, the registered voter!
Yea, it’s all so BOGUS and WRONG! This is not how the People elect; it’s how the rulers CONTROL! And the Dumbed-Down Sheeple out there are perfectly happy to be led around by their noses being so zoned out! Just let them do their drugs or crimes or give them free stuff and they go to their corners.
so….
they OPEN, INSPECT AND COUNT the ‘ballots’ before election day?
Is that so they have a pretty good idea on how many replacement ballots need to be created?
Chuckles; there you go, absolutely! Been doing that in Californication for decades, where it was ballot harvesting and stuffing, the laws must be enforced on the books and anyone caught trying to rig a federal election should get life!
Also with the way things have been going for so many years it should be all voting done on day of election and no mail in unless its military personnel overseas!
We have a system now that only invites, encourages and hides fraud, so they just keep on doing it one way or another!
yankee trash