{"id":1566780,"date":"2022-07-22T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566780"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:19:50","slug":"pennsylvania-state-gop-files-lawsuit-to-throw-out-mail-in-voting-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-state-gop-files-lawsuit-to-throw-out-mail-in-voting-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State GOP Files Lawsuit to Throw Out Mail-in Voting Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-state-gop-files-lawsuit-to-throw-out-mail-in-voting-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566780&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a> Republicans are arguing a 2019 law that largely expanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mail-in-voting\">mail-in voting<\/a> in the Commonwealth has been made invalid by a court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 14 GOP lawmakers filed a lawsuit against the state\u2019s Acting Secretary Leigh Chapman in the Commonwealth Court\u00a0on July 20, seeking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/pennsylvania-court-strikes-down-no-excuse-mail-in-voting-law_4242807.html\">again<\/a> to throw out Pennsylvania\u2019s universal mail-in ballot law, Act 77.<\/p>\n<p>It comes two months before the midterm elections this fall featuring high-profile races across the Keystone State.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2022-07-20-Bonner-v.-Chapman-Petition-1.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> claims that the mail-in voting law should be nullified under a federal appeals court\u2019s May decision that had allowed election officials to count undated mail-in ballots. The panel said throwing out mail ballots in that election for lacking a handwritten date would violate voters\u2019 civil rights. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/pennsylvania-supreme-court-denies-republican-request-to-throw-out-ruling-requiring-questionable-ballots-to-be-accepted_4527780.html\">quietly dismissed<\/a> Republicans\u2019 request to overturn the court\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>Yet provisions of Sections 6 and 8 of Act 77 both require voters to \u201cfill out, date and sign the declaration printed on such envelope,\u201d which goes against the Federal Law based on the court\u2019s judgment.<\/p>\n<p>A non-severability clause written into Act 77 says \u201cthe remaining provisions or applications of this act are void\u201d if any of its requirements are struck down. Plaintiffs, therefore, requested the court in the Wednesday lawsuit to declare all remaining provisions of Act 77 invalid and quash the law.<\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Seth Grove, chair of the House State Government Committee, also said last week in a <a href=\"https:\/\/acrobat.adobe.com\/link\/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:856b75f4-6acd-37ab-a852-31ec524fca63#pageNum=1\">letter<\/a> that \u201cthe entire bill should now be void.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh Chapman, a Democrat, disagreed in a July 20 letter, saying Act 77 still remains in place, the Philadelphia Inquirer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/election\/pennsylvania-mail-voting-law-act-77-courts-20220721.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cYour specious legal theory perpetuates disinformation,\u201d Chapman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Tom Wolf\u2019s administration wrote in a response to a state lawmaker\u2019s query Wednesday that the federal appeals court decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Republicans are arguing a 2019 law that largely expanded mail-in voting in the Commonwealth has been made invalid by a court ruling. A group of 14 GOP lawmakers filed a lawsuit against the state\u2019s Acting Secretary Leigh Chapman in the Commonwealth Court\u00a0on July 20, seeking again to throw out Pennsylvania\u2019s universal mail-in ballot law, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}