Democrats’ actions in Pennsylvania threaten democracy: Parker

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, D, has criticized a Bucks County commissioner and backed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling that undated or misdated mail-in ballots cannot be counted during a recount. The court’s ruling overturns decisions by the local boards of elections in Democratic-leaning Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, which argued that the date requirement is irrelevant to determining voter qualifications, and that to discount those ballots would be in violation of Americans’ constitutional rights.

The Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia later apologized for some heated remarks she made during the controversy.

“We all make mistakes, and I made a mistake,” Ellis-Marseglia said.

Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker highlights what she sees as a contradiction of Democrats decrying “threats to democracy” for the past four years but ignoring Pennsylvania’s state election law. Parker commends Gov. Shapiro’s decision, even if delayed, while delivering a message to those Democrats who she said ignored state law and defied both the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution.

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The following is an excerpt from the above video:

Well, regarding the Pennsylvania situation, Democrats were seeking to institute a practice in four strongly Democrat counties that wasn’t applied in the state’s other counties, the other 63 counties. Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, she starkly defied the Pennsylvania and U.S. Supreme Court by contending: “I think we all know that precedents by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want.”

This an elected official. This is an election that still had not determined who their senator was going to be. How dare her. On Nov. 18, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reaffirmed their decision, saying that the Boards of Elections in the renegade counties shall comply with the prior rulings of this court, in which we have clarified. For such ballots In their Nov. 1 ruling, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, oh, he was late to the party, he belatedly affirmed that the court’s orders was right.

Election integrity matters, and these elections are too close for us to sit weeks and weeks to determine who’s going to sit in our Senate, who’s going to sit in our house, and we know who’s sitting in the presidency.

Well, during the past four years, Democrat candidates at every level have decried threats to democracy, and claimed that they were going to defend it.

Well, however, Democrats in Pennsylvania have contradicted that claim by ignoring state law and defying a Supreme Court decision in that state on November the first the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reaffirmed that a state law requiring mail ballots to have hand written dates on the return envelope is constitutional.

The Court made a similar ruling in September when Justice Kevin Dugard offered a stinging rebuke to a lower court and litigants who were attempting to change the rules of what counts as a legally cast ballot before the election.

Despite the Supreme Court’s abundantly clear decision, four Pennsylvania counties defied the court and declared that they were going to count the ineligible ballots anyway.

This action violates a decision by the US Supreme Court as well, because they ruled in 2000 that the US Constitution Equal Protection Clause requires that the rules for what counts as a vote be the same statewide

Well, regarding Pennsylvania situation, Democrats were seeking to institute a practice in four strongly Democrat counties that wasn’t applied in the state’s other counties, the other 63 counties,

Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis marseilla, she starkly defied the Pennsylvania and US Supreme Court by contending

in quotes, I think we all know that precedents by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and people violate laws anytime they want. End quote,

this elect an official. This is an election that still had not determined who their senator was going to be.

How dare her on November the 18th, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reaffirmed their decision, saying that the boards of elections in the renegade counties shall comply with the prior rulings of this court, in which we have clarified end quote for such ballots

in their November 1 ruling Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, oh. He was late to the party. He belatedly affirmed that the court’s orders was right, that Commissioner should not be in office anymore.

Finally, he weighed in, the governor of the state weighed in as we all waited to see what our what our Senate would look like in terms of who’s going to be seating in the Pennsylvania seat.

So here he comes late to the party, and then he says in quotes, any insinuation that our laws can be ignored or don’t matter do not matter is irresponsible and does damage to faith in our electoral process.

You think, of course it does, and for her to even say something like that as an elected official, it should be blasted all over the news that she is fired governor, superior is right.

The rule of law matters, and it should be respected by all parties.

Our system of government depends upon it, and elections matter, and election integrity matters. If Democrats want to win elections, then make the case before the American people that the American people want.

They rejected Democrats this past election because they reject their policy solutions, if we could call them solutions at all.

This country rejected socialism. So Democrats need to go back to the drawing board and perhaps come up with some policy solutions that are consistent with the Constitution, and then win elections accordingly, not cheat you.