Friday, October 25, 2024

Republicans Handed Legal Loss in Battleground State

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that election officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected.

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... The ruling upholds a lower court decision in September and is a blow to the Republican National Committee (RNC), which argued in court alongside the Butler County Board of Elections that the state Election Code does not allow a voter's provisional ballot to be counted if their mail-in ballot is returned on time"even if a voter suspects or is told that their mail-in ballot was rejected.

The lawsuit was first filed by Butler County voters Faith Genser and Frank Matis, who both cast a vote in person during the 2024 primary election after they were notified that their mail-in ballots were rejected because they failed to enclose their ballots in a secrecy envelope before returning them. Genser and Matis were later notified that their provisional ballots were also not counted. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-24 02:04 AM

OK, what are these "provisional ballots that seem to be in question?

I'm gonna explore, while I do, enjoy...

Good Rats - City Liners (1979)
www.youtube.com


:)

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-24 02:07 AM


OK, found this...

Voting by Provisional Ballot
www.pa.gov

... If you are a registered voter but your eligibility to vote at your polling place is uncertain, you have the right to vote a provisional ballot.

What is a provisional ballot?

Sometimes county elections officials need more time to determine a voter's eligibility to vote. Election officials may ask that voter to vote a provisional ballot. A provisional ballot records your vote while the county board of elections determines whether it can be counted.


You may be issued a provisional ballot for the reasons below:

- - - Your name was not in the poll book or supplemental poll book.
- - - - - - For example, you reported to the wrong precinct; or
- - - - - - You did not report a recent change in residence to the county election office.

- - - You are required to show ID, but cannot show ID.

- - - Your eligibility was challenged by an election official.

- - - You were issued an absentee or mail-in ballot but believe you did not successfully vote that ballot, and you do not surrender your ballot and outer return envelope at the polling place to be spoiled.

- - - You returned a completed absentee or mailin ballot that was rejected, or you believe will be rejected, by the county board of elections and you believe you are eligible to vote.

- - - There is a special court order with respect to your registration status.

- - - There is a special court order related to extending the hours of voting.

- - - You believe that you are registered in a political party, but your voter record indicates otherwise (for primary elections only).

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-24 02:17 AM

The GOP has to cheat to win.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-24 07:22 AM

If your vote is rejected and you are give a provisional ballot be aware that provisional ballot must be cured within a few days of the vote or else it is tossed out. Just casting the provisional ballot is not enough. You need to follow up with the local elections office and perfect your ballot if you want it to count.

The GOP wrongly kick people off the voter rolls KNOWING that they will cast the provisional ballot and not follow up to perfect it.

Just another dirty underhanded trick the GOP pulls.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-24 07:25 AM

Democrats pave the way to steal another election. Why do Democrats fight against election security and integrity?

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-10-26 09:16 AM

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-10-26 09:16 AM | Reply | Flag: Happy Anniversary ! ! !

#7 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-26 09:20 AM

Why do Democrats fight against election security and integrity?

Visiturd, the daughter-boning orange pedo wanted to create a cyber security unit with Putin.

www.reuters.com

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-26 09:58 AM

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

I just flagged your post Newsworthy.

It was done for two reasons: It was Newsworthy, and to help give it more visibility here on the Retort.

It wasn't done to "butter you up," as claimed by JeffJ.

#StrongerTogether #Indivisible

#9 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-26 10:13 AM

and biden judge in VA says put illegals back on rolls.

watching for bus loads and plane loads of illegals heading to VA.

who's the "threat to democracy" again ?

---#demsrgodamnliars....

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-10-26 04:25 PM

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan | Flag: (CHOOSE)

#11 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-26 04:30 PM

So Biden judge says put illegals back on the voter rolls! Democrats are forcing real citizens to clearly understand Dems are on a trajectory against truth and our country, and want to take what is yours. Their mission apparently is election corruption and theft of your nation.

#12 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-27 07:29 PM

#10 I tried to give you the Newsworthy recognition award you deserve but strangley it was never awarded. Hopefully not but perhaps it is restricted to only Dems. Like I said hopefully not. But Ive seen it before.

#13 | Posted by Robson at 2024-10-27 08:54 PM

#13 | Posted by robson at 2024-10-27 08:54 PM | Reply | Flag: A proud Russian bot since 2006 (perhaps)

The reality is, you support a candidate that wants to force women to give birth to a child with Potter sequence, forcing that mother to hold her cold, blue child for the first (and only) 90 minutes of its life, suffocating to death in her mother's arms, while there's nothing that the mother or medical science to do to offer that poor child comfort.

Instead, she has to suffocate to death in her mother's arms for her only 90 minutes in life.

That's you, and the rest of your ilk who think that America is a garbage can.

#14 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 09:03 PM

@#12 ... So Biden judge says ...

From the summary...

... The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday ...

How is the Pennsylvania Supreme court "a Biden judge?"


#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 09:14 PM











#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 09:14 PM










I exaggerate to illustrate.

#16 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 09:19 PM

@#16 ... I exaggerate to illustrate...

Illustrate what?

That the comment you posted has nothing of substance?

I would disagree with that.

But if that is where you want to go, then have at it.


#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 09:26 PM














#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 09:26 PM













I exaggerate to illustrate.

#18 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 09:28 PM

How to not look like a complete moron while posting on the Retort

#19 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 09:29 PM

"Illustrate what?" -

#17 | Posted by LampLighter

Your obnoxious posting style, which is your cry for attention.

People here and directly to me have reiterated this:

Your posting style demonstrates a complete disrespect for readers of this site.

You're no different than the posts from shrimptacodan.

And you bring shame to intelligent readers with your willful disrespect.

You're welcome.

#20 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 09:41 PM

@#20

Thank-you for your opinion.

And I respectfully disagree.

So now, can you move past my posting style and be more interested in the content I post, not the style in which I post it?


thx.


#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 09:47 PM

"So now, can you move past my posting style..."











#21 | Posted by LampLighter







As long as you purposefully disrespect readers here, and besmirch those of us who are genuinely interested in pulling together to support and elect Kamala Harris?

Nope.

You're welcome.

#22 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 09:52 PM

My recommendation is for Hans and lamp to plonk each other

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 09:55 PM

sounds like a good idea.

#24 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-10-27 09:56 PM

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 09:55 PM

On a site like the Retort, plonking is ridiculous.

What's fun about plonking here on the Retort:

Yeah, you can no longer see the plonked person's posts.

But they can still see yours...

Which means that you can't see the plonked person's reply.

So I never plonk. It goes against my grain.

Fun, indeed.

#25 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 09:58 PM

That is why I called for mutuallly assured plonking

The retort will be better for it

#26 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 10:04 PM

"That is why I called for mutuallly assured plonking" -

#26 | Posted by truthhurts

You're 100% correct, truthhurts.

That levels the playing ground.

As on the Twitter machine.

#27 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 10:12 PM

@#23 ... My recommendation is for Hans and lamp to plonk each other ...

I don't plonk anyone here.

I want to read and understand all the comments posted, not just those I agree with.


#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 10:18 PM

#28 | Posted by LampLighter | Flag: Posts exactly like shrimptacodan

#29 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 10:19 PM

@#26 ... The retort will be better for it ...

Oddly, just popped up on a playlist here ...

New Model Army - White Coats (1989)
www.youtube.com


Lyrics excerpt ...
genius.com

...
Well, we know what makes the flowers grow, but we don't know why
And we all have the knowledge of DNA, but we still die
We perch so thin and fragile here upon the land
And the earth that moves beneath us, we don't understand
...


#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 10:28 PM

#30 | Posted by LampLighter | Flag: Posts exactly like shrimptacodan

#31 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 10:29 PM

Some people find Lamp's posting format annoying.

Some people find shrimptacodan's posting format annoying.

Some people find Hans' posting format annoying.

Some people find Tony's posting format annoying.

Some people find my posting format annoying.

You get the picture.

#32 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-27 10:32 PM

#32 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

Gal, I believe you recently asked if I was looking to be a "big fish in a small pond."

Nope.

I'm hoping that those of us who are not political remoras are at least swimming in the same direction, heading towards the same goal, and are willing to show such solidarity with one another through action, deed and word.

Apparently, that's not the case with some of us on the left side of the aisle.

In fact, some of us on the left side of the aisle have been called enemies by those who were, ostensibly, on the same side.

*sigh*

#33 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 10:40 PM

@#32 ... You get the picture. ...

The picture I "get" is that I try to look at the content, not the format of that comment.



#34 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 10:41 PM

Posted by LampLighter | Flag: Posts exactly like shrimptacodan *

* - (Posts like "bushlover2/afkabl2/"babbles" who, at his advanced age, finally earned his GED!!!)

#35 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 10:43 PM

@#33 ... In fact, some of us on the left side of the aisle have been called enemies by those who were, ostensibly, on the same side. ...

It's a big tent here over on the left.

Maybe, learn to deal with differing expressed opinions.

Discuss rather than ostracize.


#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 10:45 PM

Posted by LampLighter | Flag: Posts exactly like shrimptacodan *

* - (Posts like "bushlover2/afkabl2/"babbles" who, at his advanced age, finally earned his GED!!!)

Has no idea of the concept of respect for the reader.

#37 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 10:46 PM

You get the picture.

#32 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday

No one finds my posting style annoying.

Cause I am perfect.

Thanks for recognizing such

#38 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 10:47 PM

Posted by LampLighter | Flag: Posts exactly like shrimptacodan *

* - (Posts like "bushlover2/afkabl2/"babbles" who, at his advanced age, finally earned his GED!!!)

You're the one who called me the enemy.

Own your own words.

#39 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 10:47 PM

It appears that the Israeli-Palestinian question will be easier to solve than the Hans-Lamp conundrum.

#40 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 10:48 PM

Scoob

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Dooby

#43 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 10:49 PM

Hans, I thought you were the Drudge Historian, not the Drudge formatting police. If I don't like the formatitng someone uses and don't want to plonk them, something I have never done either, I just scroll on by. And that's what I recommned people do with my posts as well if they don't want to plonk me. I don't know why you are making such a big deal out of this. Yes, I sometimes find Lamp's and Shrimp's formatting annoying just as I sometimes find your formatting annoying, and if I'm not in the mood to deal with it, I just scroll on by. I'm less likely to find Tony's formatting annoying because we suffer from the same formatting flaw according to some aka over use of blockquotes.

Gal, I believe you recently asked if I was looking to be a "big fish in a small pond."
Nope.

No, that wasn't me. I think it was Twin.

#44 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-27 10:49 PM

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#56 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 10:51 PM

#38 | Posted by truthhurts

Hells bells, don't even get me started on your formatting style. :-)

#57 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-27 10:51 PM

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#71 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 10:52 PM

@#39 ... You're the one who called me the enemy.

Own your own words. ...

Please provide that exact quote.

I do remember saying a "wolf in sheep's clothing" which, fwiw, seems to have been confirmed.

But "enemy?"

If I had said that, I do apologize.

But I have to ask, got a link?

(you had to know that was coming...)

:)


#72 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 10:53 PM

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#89 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 10:56 PM

@#40 ... It appears that the Israeli-Palestinian question will be easier to solve than the Hans-Lamp conundrum. ...

Stay tuned ...

:)

Mel Blanc & The Sportsmen - Woody Woodpecker Song (1948)
www.youtube.com

An interesting playlist here this evening.


#90 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 10:56 PM

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#102 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 10:57 PM

" I thought you were the Drudge Historian, not the Drudge formatting police."

Gal, I'm just looking for those of us on the left side of the aisle to respect the readers of this site.

LumberLiquidator posts exactly like shrimptacodan, who disrespects readers with his every, single post, and represents Trumpanziees.

LL does the exact same thing with this...








I'm just asking LL to not disrespect readers with such ridiculous gaps...




Which demonstrates complete disrespect for the reader...

..and paints us all with the same brush, disrespectful brush.

#103 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-27 10:57 PM

Did I ever tell you about the time I heroically threw myself on a proverbial land mine?

I was at a midget soccer game, age like 10U i think.

Well I am standing on the sideline when the 2 women, sitting near each other, start getting into it.

Each is yelling about the way the other's child is playing, bitching about the refereeing, about the coaching.

Started getting real heated.

Like obnoxiously

SO, what did your hero do?

I went and stood between them

Didn't say a word,

Just stood there.

They would have had to yell through my fat ass and-------- to get at each other.

The argument immediately stopped

And the game went on

And all was well in the world.

So, yes, I am a hero.

#104 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 11:00 PM

Another that just popped up on the playlist here...

Scott Joplin - The Cascades: A Rag (1904)
www.youtube.com

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore...


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#163 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 11:08 PM

"Gal, I'm just looking for those of us on the left side of the aisle to respect the readers of this site."

I don't think Lamp, Shrimp, you, Tony, Truth or I mean any disrespect with our formatting style.

#164 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-27 11:08 PM

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#171 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 11:08 PM

How do you like my formatting Style?

#172 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 11:09 PM

The only formatting style I detest are those YouTube videos that post single WORDS in all caps in their titles, to GET my attention!

#173 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 11:11 PM

How do you like my formatting Style?
#172 | Posted by truthhurts

It is certainly distinct.

#174 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-27 11:12 PM

@#103 ... I'm just asking LL to not disrespect readers with such ridiculous gaps...

Yeah, but it took a long (quite a long) while to get to that request, no?

OK, the journey to this point aside, what are the supposed gaps of which you speak?


Are those gaps a comment formatting issue, or a comment content issue?

If the former, what do you suggest? (and, yes, I do know HTML. In a prior life I brought a company from dial-up access to the web access.) That aside...

But I guess my main concern here is... why do you seem to be so focused upon formatting over content?


That's the question I'd like to see a response to.


Another from the current playlist...

Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day (2001)
www.youtube.com

Yeah, I went to that instead of a happy face.



#175 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 11:13 PM

The device has yet to be invented that can measure the stupidity of a formatting argument

#176 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 11:16 PM

@#175 ... It is certainly distinct. ...

Yes it is.

I did that style on a PC bulletin board once back in the day.

Way back in the day. 300bps dial-up days.

Let's just say that my ability to post on that particular board became less than expected.


:)

#177 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-27 11:18 PM

The device has yet to be invented that can measure the stupidity of a formatting argument
Posted by truthhurts

Formatting discussions abound on poetry forums. Well, on poetry forums that discuss/critic free verse. Where do the linebreaks go? The stanza breaks? What is the significance of that linebreak? Would breaking the line here be better--more subtle, less subtle, more provocative, less unexpected?

"I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out." Oscar Wilde

Poets can do that will linebreaks too. But I digress.

#178 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-27 11:25 PM

Oh thanks gal, now Hans and Lamp are gonna have a multiple thread argument over whose longfellow is bigger!

#179 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 11:31 PM

#178 Which reminds me of time in the distant past on this board when I used to post a lot of poetry. There was even one poster, whose name I can't recall, who I used to have dueling poetry contests with. I'd post a poem, then he'd post a poem, then I'd post another poem in response, and so on and so forth. Some people found that mighty annoying, but since RCade never said anything about it, I didn't give a damn. Reminiscent of one of Rhett Butler's famound lines from Gone with the Wind: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.: Good times, good times. But now I know we live in much more serious times. Deadly serious times. Vulgar times. I actually don't see Lamp and Hans as being on different sides in the larger debate, and that's the sad, wasteful part about all of this formatting brouhaha, IMHO.

Again, just my 2 cents.

#180 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-27 11:41 PM

Oh thanks gal, now Hans and Lamp are gonna have a multiple thread argument over whose longfellow is bigger!
#179 | Posted by truthhurts

Oh sheet. I just hit the Offensive Flag for that post rather than the Funny Flag. Sorry, RCade. My bad.

#181 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-10-27 11:42 PM

I used to post poetry on occasion too. Esp during the Iraq war. When the melancholy git

#182 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-27 11:45 PM

@#179 ... Oh thanks gal, now Hans and Lamp are gonna have a multiple thread argument over whose longfellow is bigger!

Not gonna happen.

I refuse to be drawn into such a trivial argument when there are so many more important issues to be discussed here.

The only reason why I proffered my prior comments on this thread was to try to bring it (the thread) back to discussing issues instead of discussing formatting.

#183 | Posted by lamplighter at 2024-10-27 11:59 PM

Oh thanks gal, now Hans and Lamp are gonna have a multiple thread argument over whose longfellow is bigger!

#179 | Posted by truthhurts

My shoes

#184 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-10-28 01:46 AM

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