COLUMBUS– Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is stepping into the 2020 Presidential Election fray and asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an eleventh hour decision. Yost filed a brief Monday to protect the authority of elected State Legislatures to discard post-election day ballots that are showing up out of thin air.
“Ohio is interested in this case because reversal is crucial to protecting the Constitution’s division of authority over state election laws,” says Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. “The U.S. Constitution says ‘each State shall appoint electors in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.’ To ensure that other courts in future elections do not follow the lower court’s lead, this Supreme Court must reverse its decision.”
For comparison, Ohio’s Legislature authorized counting absentee ballots received within ten days of Election Day as long as those ballots are postmarked by the day before Election Day. On the other hand, Pennsylvania’s Legislature mandated absentee ballots counted only if received by 8PM Election Night.
At the last minute, the Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court rewrote state law, ordering election officials to count ballots including ballots with no postmarks or illegible postmarks received within three days after Election Day. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the decision and to no one’s surprise, the verdict has opened up Pandora’s Box.
A Pennsylvania mail carrier has said in a sworn affidavit that he was ordered by supervisors to collect and submit late ballots, which he said supervisors then backdated so that they appeared to have been mailed in time.
Predictably, as Republicans were locked out of the ballot counting center in Philadelphia, Joe Biden came from a 700,000 vote deficit on Election Night and with the help of over one million new votes overtook President Donald Trump three days following the election.
“The U.S. Constitution says ‘each State shall appoint electors in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.’ To ensure that other courts in future elections do not follow the lower court’s lead, this Supreme Court must reverse its decision.”
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost
One system glitch shown on CNN showed 20,000 votes subtracted from President Trump and added to Joe Biden in a 40,000 vote swing. Another glitch had President Trump losing 32,615 Votes in Pennsylvania in one hour despite the percentage reporting dropping from 89% to 87%.
While Joe Biden has created an “Office of the President-Elect,” nothing legally has actually taken place. The Electoral College meets on December 12th to vote on the Presidency, and none of the state elections have been certified.
Last night President Trump’s campaign filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleging “creation and implementation of illegal ‘two-tiered’ voting system for the election.”
Today Pennsylvania House GOP members will be calling for a legislative-led audit of the 2020 election and demand election results not be certified, nor electors be seated, until the audit is complete.” according to a press release.
