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Originally Posted by _tunic_
Ok, can a lawyer please explain the following statement:
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That statement concerns ballot counting in Philadelphia, where Pam Bondi and Corey Lewandowski allege Republican poll watchers were denied MEANINGFUL access to the ballots whose tabulation they were tasked with overseeing. Their allegations are stated in the following impromptu news conference:
Trump Campaign News Conference in Philadelphia
The Constitutional issue is that the Constitution empowers the legislatures of the several States to establish qualifications for electors and procedures for the casting and tabulation of ballots, in the face of procedures promulgated by executive officers of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania contrary to the laws passed by the legislature. The aim of the Trump campaign is a recount which can meaningfully be overseen by bipartisan election monitors in accordance with Pennsylvania law. The Republican admission that there was a "non-zero number" of observers refered to the minimal obedience to the law, while meaningful access by pollwatchers was denied due to the distance between the pollwatchers and the ballots.
The issue with the rule allowing for an extension of time after election day for mail-in ballots to be received is that neither executive officers of the state nor courts may usurp the prerogatives of the state legislature ('The change, recommended by the secretary of state's office and upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, is now the subject of a state GOP request for an emergency injunction by the U.S. Supreme Court.").