Day: October 17, 2023

Ballot Envelope Questions Lead To Demand For Trial In Delco

Ballot Envelope Questions Lead To Demand For Trial In Delco— A trial is sought to resolve apparent discrepancies between mail-in ballot envelopes photographed, July 18- 19, by citizens, and Delaware County, Pa.’s official records.

The request was made yesterday, Oct. 16, by Greg Stenstrom, Leah Hoopes, Paul Rumley and Joy Schwartz.

All are county residents. Mrs. Schwartz is a Republican candidate for County Council.

The envelopes are from the May 16 election which mostly concerned primaries but included a special election for the 163rd Pennsylvania House race.

The county claims that 26,000 mail-in ballots were cast but less than 10,000 were observed counted at the Wharf center on Election Day, says the filing.

All ballots must be counted under observation after polls close on Election Day.

Delco claims all envelopes were processed on a single BlueCrest sorter, says the filing. The timestamp formatting varied, however. This means other machines were used.

BlueCrest uses the time stamp increments for billing.

Then there is the envelope images released by the county.

“It is a material fact that the majority of MIB (mail-in ballot) envelope images provided by defendants to plaintiffs inexplicably have no date time stamps, while a considerable number of envelope images do have date time stamps, and virtually none match the photographs of MIB envelopes taken by plaintiffs,” says the filing.

The filing also says that there are hundreds of discrepancies between the electronic records and spreadsheets provided by the defendants, and the physical records; that envelope images of November 2022 and May 2023 elections show identical or nearly identical signatures; and that there are substantial reconciliation issues between the spreadsheets and electronic documents with the envelopes, National Change of Address database and “verified” electors.

The request to check envelope signatures was made a short time after the election and was bitterly contested by the county before it caved in July.

Ballot Envelope Questions Lead To Demand For Trial In Delco
On the left was photographed by citizen activists and has a timestamp albeit not in the BlueCrest formatting. On the right is the image of the same envelope provided by the county.

Here is the filing.

PF-Schwartz-Stenstrom-Hoopes-Rumley-Response-to-DF-Preliminary-Objections-Cas-258-MD-2023-16OCT2023-filedDownload

Ballot Envelope Questions Lead To Demand For Trial In Delco

Swarthmore Republicans Having Meet And Greet

Swarthmore Republicans Having Meet And Greet — Rob Jordan and Bill Pearce — who are Republicans seeking seats on Swarthmore Borough Council — will hold a meet and greet 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19 at The Inn at Swarthmore, 10 S. Chester Road, Swarthmore, Pa. 19081.

Does a Republican have a shot in Swarthmore?

Attend and find out.

Swarthmore Republicans Having Meet And Greet

MSG IS Anti-Left Democrat From Connecticut

MSG IS Anti-Left Democrat From Connecticut

By Bob Small

Mark Stewart Greenstein (MSG) is a Connecticut Democrat who posits himself as an “anti-left” Democrat. On his web site, he lists reasons for Republicans to vote for him, including, but not limited to the following: “elimination of the income tax, faster dismantling of Obamacare, faster immigration reform, and forced socialism”.

But he also lists reasons that Democrats should vote for him, such as his dislike of the two-party system, the fact that he “likes Bernie but prefers he stays in the Senate” and the fact that he is “not enamored with any of the staged candidates”. 

Lastly, he seeks the Independent vote as well, stating that he’s a candidate “who prefers small government” and “who wants to return to Constitutional governance”.

MSG IS Anti-Left Democrat From Connecticut
Mark Stewart Greenstein

It’s pretty evident that his stances — only a quarter of which are stated above –are fairly contradictory. Many, for example, would say Bernie Sanders stands for “forced socialism”.

MSG takes so many contradictory stances that he could probably debate himself.

In an insanely long meet-the-candidate article from his run for the Connecticut State Senate — 26 pages printed out; take on a train ride to read — we learn that MSG is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley School of Law. He founded and currently runs Ivy Bound, a company that helps prepare students for the ACT and SAT college-entrance exams and does academic tutoring.

During this state senate campaign, one of MSG’s goals was to bring an NHL team back to Hartford, Connecticut — previous home of the Hartford Whalers, as you no doubt knew — and the slogan was “Make Connecticut SKATE again”.

 Greenstein was the first Democratic candidate for the presidency to file in New Hampshire.

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