When every aspect of an election becomes a lawsuit, negative effects may follow – including destabilizing elections, overwhelming already strained courts and imposing significant costs on states.
Outside organizations have poured more money into Pennsylvania—where Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is locked in a competitive Senate contest with Republican nominee Dr. Oz—than any other state this cycle.
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“I think this will embolden some of those counties to not count these ballots, even though I think the weight of authority is that they still have to,” noted Marc Elias, a lawyer and founder of the voting rights advocacy group Democracy Docket.
Despite the state Supreme Court consistently backing the right to offer ballot curing, the lack of explicit requirement for it in state law will mean local election officials in various parts of Pennsylvania this fall are unlikely to offer it.
The group, which claims to be about “parent rights,” has ties to the January 6 insurrection and Christian Nationalists. They also have a chapter in Bucks County.
The immediate impacts are modest, but the order marks a top-level recognition that 100 years of cannabis prohibition were a mistake.
About 1,200 supporters rallied at Bristol Lions Park Sunday to see John Fetterman, Ashley Ehasz, and other Democrats fire up voters as Election Day rapidly approaches.
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A report by federal prosecutors offered example after example of brutality and constitutional violations, many of which disproportionately impacted Black people and Latinos in this city of almost 90,000 residents.
The incredibly lopsided “balance,” lack of actually diverse viewpoints, and dubious fairness and accuracy displayed in the network’s nomination coverage reveals what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is really going for with the new oversight it installed, writes FAIR’s Julie Hollar.
“The American people have said that the Democratic Party of right now is not what they want,” the Bucks County native told Editor Cyril Mychalejko.
The district “has engaged in a pattern of conduct designed to silence its critics,” said ACLU of Pennsylvania Deputy Legal Director Sara Rose.
Sean Moon, leader of the “antigovernment Christian gun cult” Rod of Iron Ministries, even made an appearance.