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    GD> You might understand this when and if you pick up the last Time   
    GD> Magazine. It's all out and is available for all to read.   
      
    GD> The secret history of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 election.   
      
    RL> I love the word "Saved".  It sounds like it was a good thing to subvert   
    RL> the will of the American people to put a bunch of ignorante Elites in   
    RL> power.   
      
   Are we talking about Pennsylvania changing their mail-in voting rules? Cool:   
      
   In October 2019, the Republican-led Pennsylvania General Assembly passed an   
   election law, Act 77, that added no-excuse voting by mail, a provision pushed   
   by Democrats. The act says that any qualified elector who is not eligible to be   
   an absentee elector can get a mail-in ballot. Republicans got one of their   
   priorities included too: elimination of straight-ticket voting. The bill drew   
   supporters from both parties, but it had more support from Republicans.   
      
   “It was always touted as a bipartisan effort to get ready for 2020,   
   pre-pandemic, bring Pennsylvania in line with Florida and Ohio and a bunch of   
   states that had the no excuse system,” said Edward B. Foley, an Ohio State   
   University constitutional law professor who specializes in elections.   
      
   Act 77 required constitutional challenges be brought within 180 days, but that   
   didn’t happen. After Trump lost the Nov. 3 election, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly,   
   R-Pa., and co-plaintiffs filed a case against state officials arguing that the   
   mail-in ballot provisions in Act 77 were a violation. Kelly asked the court to   
   prohibit the certification of results that included mail-in ballots or direct   
   the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose electors.   
      
   One week later, the state Supreme Court dismissed the petition as untimely,   
   writing that the plaintiffs filed their case more than a year after Act 77 was   
   enacted and after millions of residents had already voted in the primary and   
   general elections. The case was filed as the final ballots “were being   
   tallied, with the results becoming seemingly apparent,” the court wrote. The   
   court’s three-page order did not address whether Act 77 and the state   
   constitution were in conflict.   
      
   “It is not our role to lend legitimacy to such transparent and untimely   
   efforts to subvert the will of Pennsylvania voters,” Justice David Wecht, a   
   Democrat, wrote.   
      
   Chief Justice Thomas Saylor, a Republican, wrote that throwing out votes at   
   this point was extreme and untenable: “There has been too much good-faith   
   reliance, by the electorate, on the no-excuse mail-in voting regime created by   
   Act 77.”   
      
   After losing, Kelly took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, where an emergency   
   application for injunctive relief was denied by Justice Samuel Alito Dec. 8.   
   Kelly is still seeking review by the U.S. Supreme Court.   
      
   Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania’s Republican senator, said many Pennsylvania   
   lawmakers believe the law is constitutional.   
      
   “Clearly the state legislature and governor believe it is consistent with the   
   state constitution,” Toomey said. “This law wasn’t challenged when it was   
   passed, it wasn’t challenged when it was applied during the June primary   
   election. It was only challenged after President Trump lost the general   
   election.”   
      
      
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