Pennsylvania is losing a devoted fighter with deep experience in Congress.
The suit claims Washington County election officials deliberately did not inform hundreds of voters their ballots had been rejected before Election Day.
Republican State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz objected to the legislation arguing it could lead to “communism.”
The handwritten date on the external envelope has been a source of legal battles in the Keystone State for four years.
The decision sets up a potential Supreme Court showdown over the swing state’s ballots ahead of the November presidential election
The former President made reference to ‘cutting’ the program, and the Biden campaign took it as a call to action.
“Whether it’s his long record of enriching himself at the expense of working Pennsylvanians, supporting an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest, or lying about living in Pennsylvania, David McCormick has lied his way through his campaign,” said Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesperson TaNisha Cameron.
“China Dave, a former hedge fund manager and CEO of Bridgewater, accumulated his wealth by investing in Chinese companies linked to human rights violations while cutting jobs in Pittsburgh,” said Tomasetti.
“With this legislation, we are sending a clear message that Pennsylvania will not be bullied by these states and their attempts to control other people’s bodies,” said Rep. Mary Jo Daley, chair of the PA women’s health caucus.
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA’s Armando Jiménez.
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.
