(c) involve conduct outside the seven Defendant Counties, and (d) by their own
terms were isolated incidents that could not have affected the presidential election’s
results by offsetting the Biden majority of over 80,000 votes.
RESPONDENT’S ASSERTIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS
31.
Respondent argued to the district court that the extraordinary judicial
remedies he requested were proper because the Defendant Counties’ used a noticeand-cure procedure for mail-in ballots and imposed physical boundaries on
candidate representatives who were observing the counting of votes in violation of:
(a) the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; (b) the Due Process
Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; and (c) the Electors and Election Clauses of
the Constitution, although he declined to pursue this last claim.
a. Equal Protection--Notice and Cure
32.
Some Pennsylvania counties chose to offer voters within their
jurisdiction who submitted deficient mail-in ballots prior to Election Day a notice of
the defect and the opportunity to vote a provisional ballot. Pennsylvania state law
neither requires nor prohibits this so-called “notice-and-cure” procedure.
33.
Respondent contended that the Defendant Counties violated the rights
of Plaintiff voters, Mr. Roberts and Mr. Henry, under the Equal Protection Clause.
Yet, Messrs. Roberts and Henry were residents of other non-defendant Pennsylvania
counties that Respondent chose not to sue. Respondent failed to allege that the
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