In Pennsylvania, within the 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden obtained almost 2 million mail-in votes, which in line with a brand new court docket ruling, could be "unconstitutional" for future elections.
On Friday morning, a Pennsylvania state court docket struck down the state's 2019 legislation that expanded mail-in voting. The ruling comes after former President Donald Trump and his allies have questioned the legitimacy of the election, submitting quite a few court docket instances. At one level, Trump claimed to have "large proof" of voter fraud within the state.
In response to the Pennsylvania Election Returns' web site, Biden obtained 1,995,691 mail-in votes to Trump's 595,538. Biden received the state and its 20 electoral votes with 50.1 % of the vote to Trump's 48.84 %.
Throughout the run-up to the election, Pennsylvania was a hotly contested state. Successful there helped secure Trump's victory in 2016 over Hillary Clinton. Earlier than 2020, the Keystone State had not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1988.
Following Friday's information, Trump praised the ruling, writing, "Huge information out of Pennsylvania, nice patriotic spirit is growing at a degree that no person thought attainable. Make America Nice Once more."
Trump, a vocal opponent of mail-in voting, mentioned in April of 2020, that the voting technique results in "lots of people dishonest." Nonetheless, a latest research from the scientific journal Danger Evaluation mentioned that the rise in mail-in voting didn't put the security of the election in danger.
Democratic Governor Tom Wolf's workplace informed Newsweek in a Friday assertion: "The Administration will instantly attraction this resolution to the state Supreme Court docket and right now's decrease court docket ruling may have no quick impact on mail-in voting pending a remaining resolution on the attraction.
"The Republican-controlled legislature handed Act 77 with sturdy bipartisan help in 2019 to make voting extra protected, safe, and accessible and tens of millions of Pennsylvanians have embraced it.
"The straightforward reality is that regardless of near-unanimous Republican legislative help for this historic replace to Pennsylvania election legislation, they now wish to strip away mail-in voting within the service of the "massive lie."
"The power of our democracy and our nation is determined by eligible voters casting their poll and choosing their leaders. We'd like leaders to help eradicating extra boundaries to voting, not making an attempt to silence the folks."
In an announcement to Newsweek on Friday's ruling, the Pennsylvania Division of State mentioned, "The Division of State disagrees with right now's ruling and is working to file a direct attraction to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket."
In a second assertion to Newsweek on Friday, it added: "The Division of State has a easy message right now for Pennsylvania voters: Right this moment's ruling on the usage of mail-in ballots has no quick impact on mail-in voting. Go forward and request your mail-in poll for the Could major election.
"Voters who're on the annual mail poll record would possibly not too long ago have obtained within the mail, or will quickly obtain, the annual utility from their county. They need to full and return the applying to affirm that they need their county to ship them a mail poll for all 2022 elections.
"Moreover, the Division is notifying all county election boards that they need to proceed with all major election preparations as they have been earlier than right now's Commonwealth Court docket ruling. There ought to be no change of their procedures.
"Since mail-in ballots have been first made obtainable by historic bipartisan laws, greater than 4.7 million of those ballots have been forged by Pennsylvania voters. The Division stands by way of this safe, handy and accessible technique of voting."
Newsweek reached out to the White Home however has not heard again.
Replace 01/28/22, 4:34 p.m. ET: This text was up to date with further remark from the Pennsylvania Division of State.
Correction 01/28/22, 12:35 p.m. ET: This text was corrected to say that a Pennsylvania state court docket struck down the 2019 legislation, not the Pennsylvania Supreme Court docket.
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