Guest post by Joe Hoft on JoeHoft.com – republished with permission
Nonpartisan election validity group files landmark lawsuit in Pennsylvania
Guest post by Jack Gleeson
United Sovereign Americans, Inc., a nonpartisan, all-volunteer election validity advocacy group, and two Pennsylvania residents have filed a writ of mandamus with the following Pennsylvania officials and organizations— —Federal Minister, Bureau of Elections, Bureau of Election Security and Technology, Department of State and State Attorneys General.
They also named Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice as additional “respondents.”
They allege that the above-mentioned officials failed in their duty to comply with existing laws that safeguard our elections.
“A mandamus order is a judicial remedy in the English and American common law systems that consists of a court order ordering a government official or entity to perform an act that is required by law as part of the performance of his or her official duties, or to refrain from performing an act that is prohibited by law from being performed. Conduct. A mandamus order is typically used when a government official fails to act as required by law or takes action prohibited by law.
The petitioners claim, “The United States Congress has outlined minimum standards that each state must maintain in order for federal elections to be considered reliable. As discussed below, in Pennsylvania’s 2022 federal election, federal election officials fell short of these minimum standards, Resulting in that year’s certified election results being unreliable. Respondents, in their official capacity, did not do enough to ensure that the performance in 2022 was not repeated in subsequent federal elections beginning in 2024.
These standards include…
Only properly registered voters can vote
Only correct votes can be counted correctly
All voting systems meet all critical infrastructure requirements and every vote is processed correctly, uniformly, and accurately tabulated and secured
The authenticity of each ballot is demonstrated by maintaining a comprehensive, uninterrupted chain of custody from the voter’s hand to the final certified result, and Commonwealth election officials retain records of said chain of custody after the election
Certification of future elections is considered an official act and is subject to penalty of perjury.
“Pennsylvania officials certified the 2022 election despite the fact that the integrity of the election was in doubt due to the apparent error rate that occurred in the election, which exceeded the error rate allowed by Congress. Previously, no federal steps had been taken to investigate these apparent errors.
They cited the fact that “Pennsylvania’s voter registration rolls for the 2022 election contain hundreds of thousands of potential errors… in the form of illegal double registrations, voters with invalid or illogical voter histories, and voters who are suspiciously inactive.” ”. authorities, retroactive registrations, registrations with modified dates before registration, invalid or illogical registration dates, registrants with inconsistent ages, and registrants with suspicious addresses. “
They concluded: “Such errors jeopardize the validity of elections throughout the Commonwealth, cast doubt on the accuracy and integrity of the Commonwealth’s current voting systems, and undermine Pennsylvania’s collective voting rights, all of which violate existing state and federal election laws.”
These issues were brought to the attention of respondents and “absolutely nothing was done to address these errors and ensure that future elections would suffer from the same flaws.”
Individual petitioners include Diane Hauser. In 2022, she discovered that even though she voted in person, her vote was not recorded in Pennsylvania’s Statewide Unified Voter Registration System (“SURE”). She reported numerous issues to the authorities but was repeatedly ignored.
Dean Dreibelbis observed and reported numerous electoral issues, glaring errors, loopholes and discrepancies to the authorities, but each time they were ignored.
While the petitioners were not involved in the action, they cited data from Audit The Vote PA, a nonpartisan nonprofit group organized in Pennsylvania. While not naming names, they also found substantial evidence of registration problems in the 2020 and 2022 elections. For the 2022 election, they found…
54,463 people voted in counties where they no longer live; 8,177 people voted despite not actually living in Pennsylvania;
6,356 people are believed to have submitted mail-in ballots, but none were recorded in Pennsylvania’s SURE system;
69,832 mail-in ballots were sent to addresses not associated with voter registration;
18,589 people requested that multiple ballots be sent to multiple addresses, with some requesting that additional ballots be sent to up to four (4) separate addresses; and
5,492 registrations show two votes recorded in two different counties.
They cited the Help America Vote Act (“HAVA”), the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Marbury v. Madison, the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”), and existing Pennsylvania election laws .
The petitioners are not accusing anyone of electoral fraud or seeking to overturn any election. Instead, they hope to combat future election irregularities and ensure the rights of Pennsylvania citizens.
The United Sovereign Americans peer-reviewed data team analyzed Pennsylvania voter registration data for the 2022 election and found that “hundreds of thousands of voters in Pennsylvania had clear errors in their registrations.” These apparent errors are not uniform across Pennsylvania—some counties have far more apparent errors in registrations than others.
There were 3,192,069 voter registration violations out of 8,755,458 registered voters, including:
20,097 illegal duplications, multiple registrations for the same voter
43,083 illegal or invalid votes
28,256 retroactive registrations
268,493 registrations whose active registration time conflicts with registration participation
448,335 invalid or illogical registration dates
633,508 Illegal or invalid registration changes
154,913 registrants with suspicious addresses
1,580,750 registrations with post-certification record changes
They found 1,198,598 apparent voting irregularities, and 1,089,750 unique votes affected by apparent voting irregularities, including…
8,026 illegal duplications, multiple registrations for the same voter.
340,266 invalid or illogical registration dates
632,215 Illegal or invalid registration changes
59,609 registrants with suspicious addresses
138,291 registrants changed their ballots after certification
Bruce Castor Jr., the attorney representing Americans for the United Sovereignty in the case, has a long career in Pennsylvania and has represented everyone from Bill Cosby to Rudy Tju Clients such as Rudy Giuliani. He is a former Montgomery County district attorney and county commissioner who briefly served as Pennsylvania’s acting attorney general in 2016. Donald Trump defended.
Castor said: “Congress has set reliable minimum standards for every federal election… In Pennsylvania’s 2022 federal election, federal election officials did not meet these minimum standards, making the certified election results that year unreliable. Interview Democrats have not done enough to ensure that the unreliable performance in 2022 is not repeated in subsequent federal elections starting in 2024.
The mission of Sovereignty United is “to defend the validity of elections through education and litigation.” They have representatives in more than two dozen states, analyze voter databases and prepare legal actions. They recently participated in a lawsuit in Maryland that is pending in court.
