PA Senate Candidate John Fetterman Forgets Who He is Running Against

But John Fetterman PA candidate for Senate is not running against John Toomey. Toomey is the outgoing Senator. He is running against Dr. Mehmet Oz. Fetterman claims Toomey was “not nice to me.” I hate to tell you John, there will be a lot of people not nice to you when you arrive in D.C. Another Biden 2.0 who is hiding out in his basement and won’t debate.

The ad money being spent on behalf of Fetterman is unbelievable in my district. None stop on YouTube and TV among other sources. His ads make horrendous charges and effective against Oz. They are professional and no doubt have been edited in such a way that does not convey his limited speech. There are few if any ads supporting Oz and the ones done are not helpful to him and are counter mocked.

Unless the GOP steps up we will lose PA. Topping it off, our PA corrupt election system has not been corrected. There were major primary voting issues as well as in the past General. The Democrat Tom Wolf Governor vetoed corrective legislation. Worse the Federal Courts stepped in. More on that after the clips. Here is a sample of a past problem:

Department of State spokeswoman Grace Griffaton said Friday the Pennsylvania elections agency planned to canvass counties to determine how many of those ballots inside envelopes without signatures have been tossed, and officials plan to issue fresh guidance based on the ruling. Source

Fetterman mentions a Doctor and is no doubt thinking about Dr. Oz.  Wegman’s is a high end grocery outlet.

 and it goes on a few seconds more.

Flashback:

(Again, this is PA) – Last election:Chris Varney, Judge of Elections says they were initially under the impression that it was a problem with all ballots, but then determined it was only a problem with Republican ballots. Varney says he was unaware of which specific precincts were dealing with the same issue, but that this same issue was happening in numerous locations across Fayette County.

The solution provided by Fayette County officials was to collect ballots from voters and store them in the back of voting machines — but not to scan any of them to ensure the process was handled in a fair manner.

We’ve heard different variations of this story ever since November 3, 2020, when voting machines seemed to switch votes from Republicans to Democrats. At the heart of the scandal during the big election were Dominion Voting Machines. Certainly they’re not at the heart of this particular voter “challenges” story as well, right?

Just GOP ballots wouldn’t you know? The old “coding error.” And PA still has drop boxes..

Federal Appeals Court Steps into PA Election Count, Overrules State Courts

May 23, 2022 — bunkerville

Federal appeals court says undated Pa. mail ballots should be counted, a decision that breaks with state courts and could have immediate impact. So reads the headline. Earlier I reported of the problems with certain ballots unable to be read by machine. The so called “Printing errors” on ballots. 

Now we learn that the Federal courts steps into the midst of the counting of ballots with a ruling. Meanwhile different voting districts were handling the situation in different ways. 

The ruling could open a new fight immediately, as David McCormick and Mehmet Oz head toward a recount.

Pennsylvania mail ballots submitted without a date on the envelope last year should be counted, a federal appeals court said Friday, a ruling that could mean thousands more votes get counted in elections moving forward — starting with this past Tuesday’s primary.

The ruling will also almost certainly reignite the smoldering political fight over undated mail ballots; create new questions and pressure for county elections officials as they continue to count votes from this week’s primary; and create another potential opening for county-by-county legal challenges as the Senate Republican primary heads toward a likely recount.

The full extent of the decision’s impact is unclear, because the court issued a judgment and said an opinion would come later. But based on the order, lawyers from both parties said, the path was suddenly cleared for counties to count the undated mail ballots they had been preparing to reject this election

…But throwing out those votes violates the federal Civil Rights Act, the ACLU argued, because the date isn’t actually used in determining the legitimacy of a vote.

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The handwritten dates are required even though mail-in ballots are usually postmarked and routinely stamped when received by county elections offices.

The trailing candidate, Zac Cohen, lost a state lawsuit over the signature requirement earlier this year and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to take the appeal.

Five voters whose ballots were thrown out in that election, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, then filed a federal lawsuit. They lost at the district court level before the appeals judges overturned that decision on Friday.

Department of State spokeswoman Grace Griffaton said Friday the Pennsylvania elections agency planned to canvass counties to determine how many of those ballots inside envelopes without signatures have been tossed, and officials plan to issue fresh guidance based on the ruling. Source

Then what? Meanwhile there are tens of thousands of mail ballots yet to be counted though as I write this I cannot find any source as to the exact number. And the chain of custody?

Returning to our original problem that Bunker previously posted regarding Lancaster County PA:

PA 21,000 Mail Ballots to be ‘Hand Marked’ Due to Printing Error

The glitch will force election workers to hand-mark fresh ballots, a process expected to take several days. Officials in the county, the state’s sixth most populous, pledged that all the ballots will be counted eventually. But by whom? How about the local candidates where a few votes can make all the difference.

Here is how Lancaster is going. It took until Saturday to fix the ballots.

The GOP has done nothing to correct these outstanding issues by going to court and once again we will wind up questioning the results.  Federal interference should have made this a Federal case all the way to the Supremes.

Bonus:

U.S Postal Service Institutionalizes Election Interference with New Mail-in-Ballot Division

August 22, 2022 — bunkerville 

The very best of the swamp. Indeed.