The corrupt Democrats are staunch opponents of any move to ensure election integrity. They oppose proposals for same-day voting, all-American voting, paper ballots, and voter ID presentations.
Election fraud mired the previous elections in the US. Even today, several states discuss and spend hours dealing with election-related cases; this is the same reason why we need election reform.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania handed a bombshell decision in favor of election integrity on Thursday.
According to the court, digital images of completed absentee and mail-in ballots are public records.
Two years ago, an Eerie County Republican committee member, Michelle Previte, requested a copy of electronic images of the nearly 49,000 mail-in ballots received by the Eerie County during the 2020 presidential election.
The Eerie County Board of Elections denied her requests, arguing that digital images of mail-in and absentee ballots were not public records under Section 308 of the Pennsylvania Election Code.
Previte appealed to the Office of Open Records, which sided in her favor. However, the Court of Common Pleas decided otherwise.
Eventually, on Wednesday, the Commonwealth Court reiterated that these images are indeed public records and fall under the category of the Right-to-Know Law, mandating public access to government records unless explicitly exempted by the law.
Judge Ellen Ceisler, who wrote the majority opinion, said: “These exceptions establish that completed absentee and mail-in ballots are to be treated as public records once those ballots have been removed from the ballot box or voting machine.”
The Commonwealth Court judge added, “Those ballots can be obtained through an RTKL request as long as they follow the Election Code’s rules of disclosure and do not include any information that identifies (or is reasonably likely to facilitate the identification of) the individuals who cast those ballots.”
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor Natalie Clawson celebrated the ruling. She posted on X, “Huge win for election integrity in Pennsylvania! Utah needs to follow Pennsylvania’s example and declare that the digital images of mail-in ballots are public record.”
“Two things can be true: the Elections images must be auditable to restore trust AND the individual’s vote is must be kept secret. Utah.. let’s follow Pennsylvania’s lead. There is evidence that some precincts in Salt Lake Co had a 117% voter turnout in 2020 for withheld voters. This is clearly a problem. The public and a third party need to be able to audit our elections,” Clawson added.
Investigative reporter @BehizyTweets also weighed in, “this means that after the November election, voters and candidates can obtain the original images for inspection.”
He added, “What I love about this ruling is that it seems like the Appellate judges took their time to understand the issue at hand Section 308 of Pennsylvania’s election code says everything is public record “except the contents of ballot boxes and voting machines and records of assisted voters,”
“The lower court used some twisted logic to say the ballot images were somehow “contents of voting machines and, thus, were shielded from RTKL requests.”
