Hi zagzig,
I've been happy with the Biden win since the beginning. However, if anyone would put forth any real evidence that there was fraud, I'd want to know. What we have here isn't any fraud. Most of the battles are about whether or not to count a certain set of votes, not whether those votes were somehow fraudulent.
I'm not really interested in that. I believe that we should count all votes that voters made before the end of election day November 3rd, 2020. I believe, that in the case of someone mailing their ballot, that time should be allowed from the postmark date for that ballot to arrive. That would be anywhere from 3-5 days after election day. So long as a legal vote was cast by the close of business on election day, then it's not a matter of fraud, but whether or not we're going to allow for postal mail processing time for that ballot or not. Once a ballot is handed over to the U.S. post office and receives the postmark date stamp, then neither the voter, nor anyone else is able to change the legal voter's choice as to who they choose as their candidate. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Now, the fight seems to be over whether or not a state Supreme Court has the authority to change such procedures. While I still don't find that to be fraud, after all, everything that the SC did would have been out in the open and it's just a choice that a set of judges made, that does need to be determined. Do our laws, or any state's constitution, or the federal Constitution not allow a state SC to make such changes as when a mail-in ballot can be received? That's the question, and that should be addressed so that we don't have this problem in the future.
Obviously, the PA SC did think that they had the authority to make these decisions. Now the question is whether they do or not. That is still to be decided and I'm sure it will be before the next election rolls around. In the meantime, those involved that know how many ballots might be in question here, seen to think that it still isn't enough to make any difference in the outcome. According to politico.com, the PA's top elections official says that only 10,000 or so ballots were received after the 11/3 cutoff. If that's the case, and I don't know I wasn't there, but if it is the case, then I believe the case should be made mute and the legislature take the issue up at a later date.
It is actually possible that trump doesn't want this problem corrected. He may well find out that because of his threats and proclamations as to how slow the mail service was and that all of his minions should vote in person, he may find that those very late ballots were Republicans who decided at the last minute that it was too risky to stand in line. Biden, and most of the Democratic campaign workers, pushed the vote by mail and vote early mantra. So, it's likely that the votes for Biden pretty much all got there on time.
God bless,
ted