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Is it possible to deconstruct the claims?
Here's Hawley's spiel on Pennsylvania:
Hawley said that he objected to Biden’s win because Pennsylvania failed to follow its own state election laws.
"You have a state constitution that has been interpreted for over a century to say that there is no mail-in balloting permitted, except for in very narrow circumstances that's also provided for in the law," Hawley said Jan. 6. "And, yet, last year, Pennsylvania elected officials passed a whole new law that allows universal mail-in balloting, and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said."
Hawley’s central argument is that a new state law about voting by mail — passed not "last year" but in the fall of 2019 — conflicts with the state’s constitution. The courts have not backed up his argument, and he omits the full story about the new law. The state constitution doesn’t have an explicit ban on mail-in voting, and the law permitting mail-in voting passed with strong Republican support.
Article VII Section 14 of the state constitution says the state Legislature should set laws governing absentee voting in specific instances.
"The Legislature shall, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified electors who may, on the occurrence of any election, be absent from the municipality of their residence, because their duties, occupation or business require them to be elsewhere or who, on the occurrence of any election, are unable to attend at their proper polling places because of illness or physical disability or who will not attend a polling place because of the observance of a religious holiday or who cannot vote because of election day duties, in the case of a county employee, may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respectively reside."
Hawley’s argument is that this passage forbids a 2019 law that allowed mail-in balloting.
If the GOP in Penn. had any problem with the 2019 law they had plenty of time to try and change it before the election.
Here's Hawley's spiel on Pennsylvania:
Hawley said that he objected to Biden’s win because Pennsylvania failed to follow its own state election laws.
"You have a state constitution that has been interpreted for over a century to say that there is no mail-in balloting permitted, except for in very narrow circumstances that's also provided for in the law," Hawley said Jan. 6. "And, yet, last year, Pennsylvania elected officials passed a whole new law that allows universal mail-in balloting, and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said."
Hawley’s central argument is that a new state law about voting by mail — passed not "last year" but in the fall of 2019 — conflicts with the state’s constitution. The courts have not backed up his argument, and he omits the full story about the new law. The state constitution doesn’t have an explicit ban on mail-in voting, and the law permitting mail-in voting passed with strong Republican support.
Article VII Section 14 of the state constitution says the state Legislature should set laws governing absentee voting in specific instances.
"The Legislature shall, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified electors who may, on the occurrence of any election, be absent from the municipality of their residence, because their duties, occupation or business require them to be elsewhere or who, on the occurrence of any election, are unable to attend at their proper polling places because of illness or physical disability or who will not attend a polling place because of the observance of a religious holiday or who cannot vote because of election day duties, in the case of a county employee, may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respectively reside."
Hawley’s argument is that this passage forbids a 2019 law that allowed mail-in balloting.
If the GOP in Penn. had any problem with the 2019 law they had plenty of time to try and change it before the election.
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