Visitor publish by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
Nonpartisan Election Validity Group Information Landmark Lawsuit in Pennsylvania
Visitor publish by Jack Gleason
United Sovereign People, Inc., a nonpartisan, all-volunteer election validity advocate group, and two Pennsylvania residents, have filed a Writ of Mandamus, directed to the next Pennsylvania officers and organizations – Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Bureau of Elections, the Bureau of Election Safety and Expertise, the Division of State, and the state Lawyer Basic.
They’ve additionally named Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland and the US Division of Justice as further “Respondents.”
They’re claiming that the officers named above are usually not performing their responsibility to comply with present legal guidelines that safeguard our elections.
“A writ of mandamus is a judicial treatment within the English and American frequent regulation system consisting of a court docket order that instructions a authorities official or entity to carry out an act it’s legally required to carry out as a part of its official duties, or to chorus from performing an act the regulation forbids it from doing. Writs of mandamus are often utilized in conditions the place a authorities official has didn’t act as legally required or has taken a legally prohibited motion.”
The Petitioners assert, “The Congress of the US has outlined the minimal requirements which should be maintained by each state to ensure that a federal election to be thought-about dependable. As outlined beneath, in Pennsylvania’s 2022 federal election these minimal requirements weren’t met by commonwealth election officers rendering the licensed election outcomes that 12 months unreliable. Respondents of their official capacities engaged in inadequate efforts to make sure that the 2022 efficiency shouldn’t be repeated in subsequent federal elections starting in 2024.”
These requirements embody…
solely correctly registered voters solid votes
solely votes correctly solid are counted appropriately
all voting programs are compliant with all vital infrastructure necessities and each poll is appropriately and uniformly processed, in addition to precisely tabulated and secured
the authenticity of each poll counted is confirmed by the upkeep of a complete, unbroken chain of custody from the voter’s hand to the ultimate licensed outcome, and the Commonwealth election officers keep data of mentioned chain of custody post-election
and certification of future elections is known to be an official act beneath penalty of perjury.
“The certification by Pennsylvania officers of the 2022 election was accomplished regardless of the integrity of the election being suspect on account of obvious error charges occurring in that election that exceeded the error fee Congress permits earlier than federal election outcomes can’t be relied upon as correct, and the Commonwealth did nothing to research these obvious errors earlier than certifying the election.”
They cite “the truth that Pennsylvania’s voter registration rolls, contained a whole lot of 1000’s of potential errors on the time of the 2022 Basic Election… within the type of unlawful duplicate registrations, voters with invalid or illogical voter historical past, voters positioned in inactive statuses on questionable authority, backdated registrations, registrations with a modified date previous to registration, invalid or illogical registration dates, age discrepant registrants, and registrants with questionable addresses.”
They conclude, “Such errors jeopardize the validity of elections all through the Commonwealth, deliver doubt as to the accuracy and integrity of the Commonwealth’s currently-in-place voting programs, undermine Pennsylvanian’s collective voting rights, all in violation of present state and federal election legal guidelines.”
These points have been delivered to the eye of the Respondents, “who’ve accomplished completely nothing to handle these errors guaranteeing future elections will endure from the identical deficiencies.”
Particular person Petitioners embody Diane Houser. In 2022, she found that her vote was not recorded in Pennsylvania’s Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (“SURE”) system, despite the fact that she had voted in individual. She reported quite a few points to authorities and was ignored quite a few instances.
Dean Dreibelbis noticed and reported quite a few election points, obvious errors, loopholes, and discrepancies to authorities and was, every time, ignored.
Though not concerned on this motion, the Petitioners cite information from Audit The Vote PA, a non-partisan, non-profit group organized in Pennsylvania. Though not a named petitioner, in addition they uncovered overwhelming proof of registration issues within the 2020 and 2022 elections. For the 2022 election they discovered…
54,463 individuals voted in a county by which they have been not dwelling; and eight,177 individuals voted regardless of not really dwelling in Pennsylvania;
6,356 individuals have been credited as submitting a mail-in poll, however didn’t have any votes credited in Pennsylvania’s SURE system;
69,832 mail ballots have been despatched to an tackle unaffiliated with the voter’s registration;
18,589 individuals requested a number of ballots be despatched to a number of addresses, with some individuals requesting further ballots to be despatched to as much as 4 (4) separate addresses; and
5,492 registrations present as having two votes on report in two separate counties.
They cite Assist America Votes Act (“HAVA”), the 14th Modification of the US Structure, “Marbury v. Madison,” the Nationwide Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”), and present Pennsylvania election legal guidelines.
The Petitioners are usually not accusing anybody of election fraud or aiming to overturn any election. As a substitute, they want to counter future election irregularities and make sure the rights of Pennsylvania residents.
United Sovereign People peer-reviewed information groups analyzed Pennsylvania’s voter registration information from the 2022 normal election and located “a whole lot of 1000’s of voter registration obvious errors within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. These obvious errors weren’t uniform throughout Pennsylvania – some counties had way more registration obvious errors than others.”
Out of 8,755,458 voter registrations, there was a complete of three,192,069 voter registration violations together with:
20,097 unlawful duplicates, the place the identical voter has a number of registrations
43,083 unlawful or invalid vote historical past
28,256 backdated registrations
268,493 registrations the place the interval of lively registration conflicts with the registration participation
448,335 invalid or illogical registration dates
633,508 unlawful or invalid registration modifications
154,913 registrants with questionable tackle
1,580,750 registrations with data altered after certification
They discovered 1,198,598 evident voting violations, and 1,089,750 distinctive votes impacted by obvious voting violations, together with…
8,026 unlawful duplicates, the place the identical voter has a number of registrations.
340,266 invalid or illogical registration dates
632,215 unlawful or invalid registration modifications
59,609 registrants with questionable addresses
138,291 registrants with altered votes after certification
Bruce Castor Jr., the lawyer who took up the case on behalf of United Sovereign People, has had an extended profession in Pennsylvania and has represented shoppers from Invoice Cosby to Rudy Giuliani. He’s a former Montgomery County district legal professional and county commissioner who briefly served as performing Pennsylvania legal professional normal in 2016. Maybe most notably, Castor defended Donald Trump in 2021 through the former president’s second impeachment trial within the U.S. Senate.
Castor mentioned, “Congress set minimal requirements for each federal election to be thought-about dependable… In Pennsylvania’s 2022 federal election these minimal requirements weren’t met by Commonwealth election officers rendering the licensed election outcomes that 12 months unreliable. Respondents have engaged in inadequate efforts to make sure that the unreliable 2022 efficiency shouldn’t be repeated in subsequent federal elections starting in 2024.”
The United Sovereign People mission is “to protect the validity of elections by way of schooling and litigation.” They’ve representatives in over twenty states analyzing voter databases and getting ready authorized actions. They lately joined a lawsuit within the state of Maryland, which is working its manner by way of the courts.
