What is their argument? "It already happened" isn't an explanation. I know "covid" was their excuse for changing the rules, but what is their explanation for keeping those changes and letting them stand?
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What is their argument? "It already happened" isn't an explanation. I know "covid" was their excuse for changing the rules, but what is their explanation for keeping those changes and letting them stand?
It's fairly simple really; this was an argument that needed to happen before the election, before millions of people voted. The rules should have been corrected then. After the election... it's too late.
Maybe an argument could have been presented for re-running the election in that state, with the rules corrected. That would have ensured that the true victor took Pennsylvania. But that argument wasn't made. Instead, the "losing" side sought to have a bunch of ballots discarded, handing themselves the victory. And that argument was always going to be a non-starter.
I agree with you, except some actually tried to sue to stop the rule changes. The PA Supreme Court ruled they had no standing as injury had not already occurred.
Unfortunately the Republican party at the state and national level did not have Trump's back and didn't attempt to stop these changes at an opportune time. That's why Trump had to try to use his personal lawyers like Rudy and Jenna to correct this after the fact, but it was always gonna be an uphill battle.⁰
Yeah, I get the Catch 22.
At the end of the day, people looked at the rules which were in place. They made their decision on how to vote based on those rules. It would be absolutely wrong to discard a load of votes from real, voting Americans, after the fact. No question about that.
Questions of legitimacy come up here all the time. How can the 2020 result be respected if it can't be seen as legitimate? If there are unresolved questions of voter fraud? The result should reflect the will of the people. The same principle applies here; how can the result reflect the will of the people if the rules are changed after the fact? If otherwise legitimate votes are discarded?