A Pennsylvania court has granted relief to a group of fourteen MAGA Republican state lawmakers suing to overturn Act 77 of 2019 and thus banning no-excuse absentee voting in the state.
“In this companion opinion to McLinko v. Commonwealth, _ A.3d _ (Pa. Cmwlth., No. 244 M.D. 2021, filed January 28, 2022), Representative Timothy R. Bonner and 13 members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (collectively, Petitioners) have filed a petition for review seeking a declaration that Act 77 of 2019,2 which established that any qualified elector may vote by mail for any reason, violates the Pennsylvania Constitution and is, therefore, void. Petitioners also assert that Act 77 violates the United States Constitution. U.S. CONST. art. I, §§2, 4 and art. II, §1; U.S. CONST. amends. XIV and XVII. Finally, Petitioners seek an injunction prohibiting the distribution, collection, and counting of no-excuse mail-in ballots in future state and federal election,” says the ruling. The best part is that, besides Bonner and one of the other plaintiffs who weren’t elected until 2020, all twelve of the other state representatives voted YES on Act 77 in 2019.