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Pennsylvania law requires someone to be a resident of the state to vote.
Federal law allows American citizens to vote in federal elections in the last place in the US they lived if they are living overseas.
How the fuck can there be conflicting laws on the state and federal level regarding your right to vote???
Isn't this something that should have been resolved in the past 200 years or so?
The US Constitution already resolves this issue with federal preemption under the Supremacy Clause. Basically, Pennsylvania’s residency requirements apply to all elections within the state: local, state, and federal. However, in federal elections, federal law preempts and overrides any conflicting state laws. These challenges have been filed in bad faith.
But they will gum things up without the justice system acting swiftly. And it could be Trump-appointed justices overseeing them
Exactly, I think the real intent here is to cause delays and spread confusion.
More specifically, it's to delay the count past the deadline for certification, so that they can throw the disputed votes out, throw the whole state's votes out, prevent either candidate from passing the EC threshold and force a contingent election, etc.
These challenges have been filed in ~~bad faith~~ the hopes that the current conservative SCOTUS will hear an emergency appeal and give the presidency to Trump.
Ftfy
Wait does that mean I’m an illegal voter under state law lol?
FIFY: Over 4,000 overseas voters ballots baselessly challenged in Pennsylvania
The Election Research Institute is led by Heather Honey, a prominent activist who has spread false claims about elections.
This is the game. Challenge everything as much as possible. Even if very little of it sticks, two big things have will have happened:
Some number of actual votes will have been invalidated -- often from groups more likely to vote blue.
The same groups making the challenges can claim that the multitude of challenges are themselves evidence of problems with the electoral system. (This should be impossible, but it seems to be a common tactic when googling from your armchair counts as "research".)
The Election Research Institute is led by Heather Honey…
Based on their website, I’m pretty sure the Election Research Institute is Heather Honey.
What’s a non-key battleground state?
a state like nevada. It’s gonna be real close but if you do the math in 98% of scenarios it won’t matter who wins it just because of how the electoral votes puzzle together.