Trump Campaign Asks Pennsylvania Federal Judge To Order State To Provide Information About Mailed-In Ballots

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By Shipwreckedcrew

Late on Friday the Trump Campaign filed a Motion to Compel Discovery in the case pending in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, where the issues raised involving whether seven named County Boards of Election violated Pennsylvania election law by “pre-canvassing” the mail-in ballots earlier than 7:00 a.m. on election day as specified by law, and then used information from such pre-canvassing to contact voters with defective ballots so they could vote provisional ballots on election day.

The evidence that such activity took place is significant and likely beyond the ability of the defendants to seriously contest.  As I noted in this story, a Motion to Intervene by the NAACP includes declarations from voters in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties stating they voted by provisional ballot for this very reason — they were contacted either on election day or before election day, were told their mailed-in ballots were being rejected, and they needed to vote in person.



Prior to pre-canvassing, the mail-in ballots were in the possession of the County Boards of Election.  “Pre-canvassing” involves opening the envelopes, inspecting the ballots to see if they are properly completed, and recording the votes.  But state law prohibits the disclosure of any information regarding the ballots.

There were two primary causes for mail-in ballots being rejected during pre-canvass — the voter failed to place the ballot itself inside an inner “security sleeve” before placing the sleeve inside the return-envelope for mailing, and the voter failing to place his/her signature on the declaration printed on the outside of the return envelope.  Rejected ballots — all parts of them — were to be retained and accounted for by the County Boards.

Prior to pre-canvassing, the mailed-in ballots were in the possession of the County Boards of Election.  “Pre-canvassing” involves opening the envelopes, inspecting the ballots to see if they are properly completed, and recording the votes.  But state law prohibits the disclosure of any information regarding the ballots.

In this article by Margot Cleveland at The Federalist on Thursday, she includes an interview with Joe Kantz, the chairman of the Snyder County Commission and the chairman of the Board of Elections for more than 10 years.  He told her that as soon as they began pre-canvassing ballots on the morning of election day, an out-of-state poll watcher for the Democrat Party began demanding the names and addresses of Democrat voters whose ballots were being rejected.  He produced an email from the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Katherine Boockvar, stating that information on rejected ballots — including the voter’s name and address — should be provided to campaign or party officials on request.  Jantz’s Board did not disclose the information.  He told Cleveland that approximately 60 ballots were rejected for failure to include the “security-sleeve”, and another 25 were rejected due to the voter’s failure to sign the declaration on the return envelope.  No voters were notified of the failure, and none voted a provisional ballot to “cure” their defect.

As it turned out, according to the Federalist article, the day before the election the Democrat Party of Pennsylvania had already organized an operation for contacting those voters on election day, advising them that their mail-in ballot had been rejected, and then helping them got to their polling placer to cast a provisional ballot.  Compensation — $400 for the day plus $100 for gas.

The Trump Campaign sent four interrogatory questions to the various defendants in the case and filed a motion yesterday seeking a Court order that the Defendants be compelled to provide answers to the questions on an expedited basis.  Those questions are:

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and then helping them got to their polling placer to cast a provisional ballot. Compensation — $400 for the day plus $100 for gas.

But… but… but… wait. Wasn’t the purpose of this vote by mail debacle (aside from the massive, golden opportunity for widespread fraud) to AVOID going to the polling places? Isn’t that CERTAIN DEATH? Oh, and paying people for voting is illegal, too.