Conservatives who gathered for the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this weekend voiced agreement with President Donald Trump that shady vote-counting practices in Democrat-controlled areas could cost Republicans the presidency — and other offices.
"People tell me all the time 'we want you to make sure [officials] certify the electorate so no one can steal it,'" Republican Rep. Scott Perry of York told Newsmax.
Perry's view was echoed by Lowman Henry, head of the conservative Lincoln Institute.
"President Trump is absolutely right in expressing his concerns over ballot security and election fraud in Pennsylvania," Henry told us. "Not only was our mail-in ballot program fraught with complications in the June primary leading to some races not being decided for weeks, but the activist union-controlled Pennsylvania Supreme Court has decided to re-write election law and allow mail-in ballot received up to three days after the election to be counted."
Henry also noted "the court has ruled [ballots] must be counted even if the ballot lacks a postmark or a legible postmark. That means the ballot could be cast AFTER election day and still be counted." Republican lawmakers are at this time planning to seek federal court action to block that ruling.
Worst of all, Henry insisted, is that the "[state] Supreme Court approved the use of drop-off boxes for ballot. These are simply stand-alone boxes with zero security."
Begun in 1989, the first virtual PLC was held this year with speakers addressing participants through a cable TV hookup statewide.
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