To clarify the PA late arriving ballots that the Supreme Court was involved with for anyone that doesnāt yet understand how stupid this fight is.
PA voting law said that ballots not received by Election Day would not count. The PA Democratic Party filed a lawsuit to get that extended due to covid and the unusually high number of mail in ballots delaying the delivery of those ballots. The PA Supreme Court, citing some voting rights provision in the PA constitution, extended the deadline for ballots arriving 3 days after the election could be counted.
The GOP appealed to SCOTUS who in a 4-4 decision, chose to not hear the case.
The PA sos sent guidance to each of the countiesā elections office that they were to segregate those ballots and not include them in the count.
All available evidence indicated that the counties were doing just that.
The GOP filed an injunction request to the SCOTUS on Thursday naming 25 counties that they did not have direct confirmation from that these ballots had been segregated.
Justice Alito issued an order that the ballots should be segregated, but never stated if these ballots should or should not be counted.
From what Iāve heard is that after all of the other ballots are counted the counties were advised to tally the late arriving ballots but not include that number in the totals.
The Friday injunction is useless bullshit because:
1. The ballots were already being segregated, and by Saturday afternoon 63 of 67 counties had explicitly confirmed that the ballots were segregated.
2. These ballots would favor Biden at a roughly 75/25 split statewide.
3. Joe Biden is already winning the state.
I think the Trump teamās strategy was to invalidate a portion of the mail in ballots counted in philly during the period where they claim their poll watchers werenāt given appropriate access. And then hope that amount pushes Trump back ahead and then have the late arriving mail in ballots disallowed so that those are unable to make up any lead Trump may gain. And/or find some small backwoods GOP county that āaccidentallyā counted the late arriving ballots with the rest of the ballots, and then try to get the whole stateās mail in ballots invalidated.
Iām pretty sure the lawsuit over the poll watchers has already been shot down.
since Joe Biden is ahead, the late arriving ballots are meaningless.
I donāt see any reason whatsoever that any of the PA lawsuits will have any effect on the election and I think the only reason the media is talking about it is because there being a Supreme Court non-decision related to it seems to give the issue some level of merit that it doesnāt deserve.