VICTORY: Court ruling puts mail-in voting on hold in Pennsylvania
Friday's Commonwealth Court opinion declared Act 77 of 2019 unconstitutional, though an appeal is expected by the Department of State.
A court has struck down Pennsylvania’s unconstitutional mail-in balloting vote in a massive loss for Democratic activists and other ballot harvesters ahead of the 2022 elections.
"If presented to the people, a constitutional amendment to end Article VII, Section 1 requirement of in-person voting is likely to be adopted,” one judge wrote in the majority opinion. “But a constitutional amendment must be presented to the people and adopted into our fundamental law before legislation allowing no-excuse mail-in voting can be 'placed upon our statute books.'"
Pennsylvania’s America First candidates applauded the ruling as a step toward protecting election integrity.
“Non-verified, universal mail-in voting was the main tool used by Democrats to skew the election against President Trump, Sean, and me in 2020,” 8th Congressional District Republican Jim Bognet said.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Lou Barletta celebrated the ruling on the illegal voting law and said if it remains on the books (surviving other legal challenges) he would repeal it.
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