11/13/20
Federal Court Rejects GOP Challenge To Pennsylvania Ballots
By Caleb Newton -November 13, 2020
Tòa phúc thẩm The Third Circuit Court đã bác đơn kháng cáo quyết định của tòa án cấp dưới về việc duy trì thời hạn kéo dài để nhận phiếu bầu qua đường bưu điện để kiểm phiếu ở bang Pennsylvania.
Theo thời hạn gia hạn, các lá phiếu gửi bằng thư có thể đến ngày thứ ba sau Ngày Bầu cử và vẫn có hiệu lực, và các tiểu bang khác đã thực hiện thời hạn mở rộng tương tự để nhận các lá phiếu gửi bằng thư để kiểm phiếu.
Tất cả các lá phiếu luôn phải được đóng dấu bưu điện trước Ngày Bầu cử để được tính.
Quyết định từ Tòa phúc thẩm đệ tam cung cấp một số biện pháp bảo vệ cho các lá phiếu đã được gửi lại cho các cơ quan bầu cử ở Pennsylvania - mặc dù một kháng cáo riêng của Đảng Cộng hòa vẫn đang chờ xử lý trước Tòa án tối cao Hoa Kỳ.
The judges said:
‘WE DO NOT DECIDE TODAY WHETHER THE DEADLINE EXTENSION OR THE PRESUMPTION OF TIMELINESS ARE PROPER EXERCISES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA’S LAWMAKING AUTHORITY, DELEGATED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, TO REGULATE FEDERAL ELECTIONS. NOR DO WE EVALUATE THE POLICY WISDOM OF THOSE TWO FEATURES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT’S RULING. WE HOLD ONLY THAT WHEN VOTERS CAST THEIR BALLOTS UNDER A STATE’S FACIALLY LAWFUL ELECTION RULE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE STATE’S ELECTION OFFICIALS, PRIVATE CITIZENS LACK ARTICLE III STANDING TO ENJOIN THE COUNTING OF THOSE BALLOTS ON THE GROUNDS THAT THE SOURCE OF THE RULE WAS THE WRONG STATE ORGAN OR THAT DOING SO DILUTES THEIR VOTES OR CONSTITUTES DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF VOTERS IN VIOLATION OF THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE.’
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an appeal of a lower court’s decision upholding an extended deadline for receiving mail-in ballots for counting in the state of Pennsylvania. Under the extended deadline, mail-in ballots could arrive up to the third day after Election Day and remain valid, and other states have implemented similarly extended deadlines for receiving mail-in ballots for counting. All ballots always must be postmarked by Election Day to be counted. The decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals offers some protection for the ballots that arrived back to election authorities in Pennsylvania — although a separate Republican appeal remained pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the Third Circuit ruling, the three judges — who unanimously agreed in their ruling — said that a lower court had been correct to claim that the group of Pennsylvania voters who brought the lawsuit didn’t have the legal standing on which to bring their case in the first place. The judges added that even if they did conclude that the voters had standing to bring the case, they would not have acquiesced to their demands and thrown out the ballots that arrived post-Election Day but before the extended deadline.
Links:
https://bipartisanreport.com/2020/11/13/federal-court-rejects-gop-challenge-to-pennsylvania-ballots/
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