Established Fact “Philadelphia accepted a $10,016,074 CTCL grant that contractually required the city to ‘work to secure 800 or more in-person polling places on Election Day’ and to pay election judges and poll workers using private grant funds — $851,500 in hazard pay for 8,515 poll workers was budgeted directly within the grant agreement. The […]
Disputed Fact FEC‑based analyses cited in the national memo show Pennsylvania federal races receiving substantial flows from ActBlue accounts that appear to function as aggregation points for unusually high volumes of small donations (dozens or hundreds of contributions per cycle) from single nominal donors. The pattern is consistent with the possibility that larger actors are
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Established Fact EIP and CISA collaborated to label and suppress high-profile statements by attorney Harmeet Dhillon and former Speaker Newt Gingrich concerning alleged denial of lawful observation in Philadelphia and related election-law issues. Their public legal arguments, grounded in sworn declarations from Pennsylvania poll watchers, were categorized as “delegitimization” and “disinformation,” and flagged for platform
Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – As to whether non-uniform application was intentional or logistical] Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar issued guidance to select Pennsylvania counties on the evening of November 2, 2020 – the night before Election Day – encouraging certain counties to notify party representatives of defective mail-in ballot envelopes before Election Day.
Established Fact [Established Fact – As to guidance issuance and non-uniform application] Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar issued guidance to select Pennsylvania counties on the evening of November 2, 2020 – the night before Election Day – encouraging certain counties to notify party representatives of defective mail-in ballot envelopes before Election Day. This guidance
Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – Impact on congressional deliberation] The Pennsylvania State Legislature filed a formal resolution explicitly urging the U.S. Congress to declare Pennsylvania’s presidential electors “in dispute,” citing the executive branch’s unlawful infringement of the General Assembly’s constitutional authority. This was an official legislative act – yet major media organizations characterized the legislative
Established Fact [Established Fact – Legislative resolution issued and media characterization documented] The Pennsylvania State Legislature filed a formal resolution explicitly urging the U.S. Congress to declare Pennsylvania’s presidential electors “in dispute,” citing the executive branch’s unlawful infringement of the General Assembly’s constitutional authority. This was an official legislative act – yet major media organizations
Established Fact Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar unilaterally and prematurely certified the statewide presidential election results on November 24, 2020, before Philadelphia County and Allegheny County had completed uploading their voter histories to Pennsylvania’s Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE system). The consequence of this premature certification is mathematically irreconcilable: Representative Francis Ryan’s December
Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – As to ultimate legal effect on certification validity] The Pennsylvania Election Code, as enacted by the General Assembly in Act 77 of 2019, specified four specific mail ballot requirements: (1) all ballots received after 8:00 p.m. on Election Day shall not be counted; (2) all mail-in ballots must include a
Established Fact In the weeks preceding the November 2020 general election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar altered four core provisions of Pennsylvania’s mail ballot law — Act 77 of 2019 — without action by the General Assembly. First, Act 77 unambiguously required all mailed ballots to be received by
