Was the 2020 Election Stolen? Part IV: Pennsylvania

Welcome to the second part of The Right Take guys' investigation of the allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. In this part, they dive exclusively into the election and aftermath in Pennsylvania. After examining the evidence, they each give their personal verdict on who won the Keystone State.

 

00:00 Tipping the Pennsylvania Scales before Election Day

12:06 Counting the Votes

28:16 After the Count: Lawsuits, Hearings, Affidavits, and Apparent Shenanigans

44:08 Aftermath

 

SHOWNOTES:

In 2018, 115,684 were rejected, and in 2020, 7,099 were rejected. 

https://hereistheevidence.com/election-2020/stats/ 

Mail-in ballots allowed to be counted three days after election day by PA Supreme Court

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-virus-outbreak-campaigns-local-elections-pennsylvania-355f8dca7a34a4902f42d8f4931c419e 

Mail-in ballot return rate by party

https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/PA.html 

Why the GOP-controlled legislature didn’t allow mail-in ballots to be counted before election day

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/pennsylvania-election-crisis/index.html 

“Zuckbucks” in Pennsylvania

https://nypost.com/2021/10/25/grants-tied-to-facebook-boosted-democrats-in-pennsylvania-report-says/ 

Episode 18 “How the Right Can Stop Losing” where we cover “Zuckbucks” nationwide

https://righttakepodcast.com/2021/04/29/episode-18-how-the-right-can-stop-losing/ 

In Pennsylvania, “The counting of the ballot of an absentee elector or a mail-in elector thus deceased shall not of itself invalidate any nomination or election.”

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/li/uconsCheck.cfm?yr=2019&sessInd=0&act=77 

Nine military ballots found in a dumpster, seven opened, all for Trump.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/10/fact-check-partly-false-claim-discarded-ballots-pennsylvania/6213556002/ 

USPS loses unknown number of ballots

https://nationalfile.com/usps-loses-unknown-number-of-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballots/ 

The case of Sebastian Machado in Erie County

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9677886017 

A video of a poll watcher went viral, causing #stopthesteal to be mentioned 12,800 times by noon on election day.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/pennsylvania-false-info-voting 

Poll watchers turned away

https://nationalfile.com/video-philadelphia-poll-watchers-turned-away-illegal-electioneering-caught-on-camera/ 

A Democratic observer confirmed the binocular use

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/philadelphia-republican-observers-vote-count/2020/11/06/982385ac-2055-11eb-ba21-f2f001f0554b_story.html 

Poll workers in Biden facemasks filling in blanks in submitted mail-in ballots (among other things)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9_SgYJnbKo 

Voting machines down in Scranton

https://nationalfile.com/video-voters-told-that-voting-machines-down-in-scranton-ballots-will-be-scanned-later/ 

Before the spike, Trump was up nearly 700,000 votes at 56 percentage points against Biden’s 43 points.

https://nationalfile.com/biden-leads-pa-after-700000-votes-found-in-philadelphia-sheriff-refuses-order-allowing-gop-observers/ 

Graph of vote timeline

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/pennsylvania-election-crisis/index.html 

Allegations of fraud from Rudy Giuliani

https://nationalfile.com/breaking-rudy-giuliani-sidney-powell-release-the-kraken-gives-specific-bombshell-evidence-of-voter-fraud/ 

Pyrrhic Trump court victory on election observer distance

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/05/931699984/trump-launches-broad-legal-gambit-paired-with-public-doubt-raising-on-results 

Philly sheriff refused to enforce order

https://nationalfile.com/what-are-you-hiding-trump-campaign-says-philly-sheriff-wont-enforce-order-allowing-gop-observers/ 

Cory Lewandowski’s experience as an observer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/philadelphia-republican-observers-vote-count/2020/11/06/982385ac-2055-11eb-ba21-f2f001f0554b_story.html 

The curious case of USPS whistleblower Richard Hopkins

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-postal-worker-ballot-tampering-claims-questioned 

Trump’s November 9 lawsuit

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-pennsylvania-harrisburg-4ffb65405cf23356da03339b78225822 

Allegheny County Republican board member’s refuting Trump’s claims

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/11/10/pennsylvania-voting-lawsuits/ 

Trump court victory on ballot curing between November 9 and November 12

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/11/12/pennsylvania-judge-rules-in-favor-of-trump-campaign-orders-state-cant-count-some-ballots/?sh=6d8478ed6c12 

Major law firm bullied into withdrawing from Trump lawsuit

https://www.pennlive.com/elections/2020/11/bid-to-consolidate-two-court-cases-alleging-vote-fraud-in-pa-withdrawn.html 

Giuliani claimed in court that he wasn’t claiming fraud.

https://whyy.org/articles/a-cheat-sheet-for-the-trump-election-lawsuits-still-alive-in-pa/ 

Example of Pennsylvania’s violation of equal protection clause boosted Biden’s numbers

https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/lancaster-county-man-whose-ballot-was-rejected-joins-trump-lawsuit-in-pa/article_4a393472-2924-11eb-8ccb-5b0bff5c0ae3.html 

In Philly suburban Bucks County, the Trump lawyers signed court documents that they weren’t claiming fraud or misconduct.

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/trump-campaign-attorneys-admit-there-is-no-evidence-of-any-fraud-in-connection-with-challenged-ballots-in-bucks-county-pa/ 

On November 15, the Trump campaign narrowed its federal case in Pennsylvania to claim that the only complaint it had was ballot-curing

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-election-fraud-claims-disappear-in-pennsylvania-court-1 

On November 21, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann — a Republican and Federalist Society member in central Pennsylvania — compared Trump’s legal arguments to “Frankenstein’s Monster

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-pennsylvania-elections-talk-radio-433b6efe72720d8648221f405c2111f9 

Mike Kelly and Sean Parnell’s lawsuits

https://www.businessinsider.com/pennsylvania-republicans-mail-in-ballot-reform-unconstitutional-trump-biden-election-2020-11 

Matt Braynard’s study based on cold calling voters

https://wskg.org/news/former-trump-staffer-fishing-for-voter-fraud-in-pennsylvania-is-short-on-proof/ 

Results of Braynard’s project and Dr. Steven Miller’s estimates of fraudulent votes in PA https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/williams-prof-disavows-own-finding-of-mishandled-gop-ballots/article_9cfd4228-2e03-11eb-b2ac-bb9c8b2bfa7f.html

Giuliani’s Gettysburg Address

https://insidesources.com/in-pa-hearing-giuliani-makes-his-case-for-voter-fraud-gone-wild/ 

Expert witness testified seeing USB drives uploaded to multiple computers.

https://www.lawofficer.com/expert-witness-gives-testimony-that-up-to-120000-pennsylvania-votes-should-be-questioned/ 

Jesse Morgan affidavit

https://www.pacourts.us/Storage/media/pdfs/20210603/212420-file-10836.pdf 

Split ticket voting in Pennsylvania

https://whyy.org/articles/they-rejected-trump-but-stuck-with-republicans-down-ballot-meet-pa-s-ticket-splitters/ 

Claim of Dominion fraud statistically impossible

https://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/pa-republicans-amplify-trump-s-baseless-election-fraud-claims/article_1d714462-2b80-11eb-b905-b72d4de9ffa7.html 

If only Joey “Skinny” Merlino had flipped

https://www.phillyvoice.com/joey-merlino-philadelphia-mob-trump-biden-election-fraud-lawsuits-2020/ 

Turns out, even Gov. Tom Wolf (D) just committed voter fraud. 

https://www.abc27.com/news/this-week-in-pennsylvania/pennsylvania-politics/it-was-an-honest-mistake-gov-wolfs-wife-drops-off-his-ballot-violating-pa-election-law/ 

Pending forensic audit by Iowa-based firm Envoy Sage

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/582462-pennsylvanias-gop-controlled-senate-to-spend-up-to-270k-on-election 

 

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